Why are people paying more for Anzac biscuits at the foodbank than their local supermarket?

Meanwhile 4 years later, there are a lot of people still waiting.
#raisetherate

I have just had an hour phone call with the department of employment and workplace relations attempting to get to the bottom of ongoing complaints about the abuse of employment providers. We shouldn’t employ sociopaths or commodify the poorest. #AbolishESPs #RaiseTheRate #auspol #HumanRights

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afsoc4ni2pxgic7sswmkbztn/post/3lku6ddnd4c2x

Why we get upset with little lines like “They have aggressively increased pensions and benefits”: Aside from it not being true? Or that it was in an article lamenting that Labor and Albanese weren’t getting enough credit for helping people and the economy? #RaiseTheRate #NobodyDeservesPoverty @AmandaRishworth https://t.co/1LbHAVorlT pic.twitter.com/Cj6Ftt4Xv5 — Avery Howard (they/them) (@averyhowardau) April 28, 2023 I think… https://phonakins.com/2025/02/01/why-we-get-upset-with-little-lines-like-they-have-aggressively-increased-pensions-and-benefits/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #costofliving #welfare #centrelink @phonakins

"I knew that charities on the ground were facing increased costs for their purchases from Foodbank, but I didn’t realise it had gone up so much.
I don’t see the answer as giving more money to Foodbank itself."

https://phonakins.com/2025/01/15/food-banks-are-broken-just-like-the-rest-of-system-they-are-in/

#Charity, #Election, #FoodBanks, #Foodbank, #Raisetherate, #Welfare

Foodbank™ doesn't need more funding, people need the money to buy the items they needs when they needs them.
#RaiseTheRate of welfare payments above the poverty line and then we can talk about which charities actually need funding
#NobodyDeservesPoverty

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/australian-food-charities-expensive-foodbank-falling-donations-unprecedented-demand

Nah the point is people should be able to buy the food they want and need when they want it.
#RaiseTheRate
of all welfare above the poverty line, worker benefits will have to follow from that

(hey, Ma, I'm in the paper)

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/australian-food-charities-expensive-foodbank-falling-donations-unprecedented-demand

Friday lunchtime read:

Food banks are just a more expensive way to get food that isn't necessarily suitable to poor people: Prove me wrong https://phonakins.com/2024/11/29/food-banks-are-just-a-more-expensive-way-to-get-food-that-isnt-necessarily-suitable-to-to-poor-people-prove-me-wrong/

#Charity, #Christmas, #FoodBanks, #Foodbank, #Lidia, #Ozharvest, #RaiseTheRate, #Vinnies, #Volunteers, #Welfare

The nerds are ANGRY on #auspol tonight.

Comrades...

...coulda used this kind of energy when we were pushing back against Labor's bullshit on housing, #RaisetheRate, the Indigenous referendum, kids in prison, counting queers, etc.

If you only show up when it's explicitly 'about' digital policy you don't get to wonder why nobody else appears to give a fuck about digital policy.

Congratulations to the #RaiseTheRate campaign, latest results in the new YouGov poll.

76% of people want JobSeeker raised in line with the OECD average. That's essentially double the current rate

We'll have our own committee (with blackjack and hookers) #LeftBehindCommittee

#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate
#Budget2024

https://phonakins.com/2024/05/02/well-have-our-own-committee-leftbehindcommitte

You can do it Jim, you can lift millions out of poverty this budget. I believe in you? https://phonakins.com/2024/04/27/you-can-do-it-jim-you-can-lift-millions-out-of-poverty-this-budget-i-believe-in-you/ #Budget, #Jobseeker, #RaiseTheRate, #Scurvy, #Welfare

Welfare is going up a dollar a day from March 20 https://phonakins.com/2024/03/18/welfare-is-going-up-a-dollar-a-day-from-march-20/ #Budget, #Family, #Housing, #RaiseTheRate, #Welfare

Grannies Targeted - Supermarket Pricing, Write-offs and what lands on my Kitchen Table https://phonakins.com/2024/03/07/grannies-targeted-supermarket-pricing-write-offs-and-what-lands-on-my-kitchen-table/ #BTPM, #Budget, #Dsp, #FoodBank, #Housing, #Jobseeker, #RaiseTheRate, #Renting, #Welfare

Cool, the tax cuts are less shit. Now #RaiseTheRate above the poverty line so welfare recipients aren't left further behind https://phonakins.com/2024/01/25/cool-the-tax-cuts-are-less-shit-now-raisetherate-above-the-poverty-line-so-welfare-recipients-arent-left-further-behind/ #Budget, #Carers, #Centrelink, #Dsp, #Jobseeker, #RaiseTheRate, #Welfare, #YouthAllowance

With MPs heading back to Canberra, what's on your wishlist this cost-of-living crisis? https://phonakins.com/2024/01/20/with-mps-heading-back-to-canberra-whats-on-your-wishlist-this-cost-of-living-crisis/ #Budget, #BulkBilling, #Dsp, #Health, #Housing, #Jobseeker, #Labor, #Medicare, #PowerBills, #RaiseTheRate, #Taxation, #Twitter, #Welfare

By 2030, more Australian children should rely on charity https://phonakins.com/2023/12/28/by-2030-more-australian-children-should-rely-on-charity/ #Budget, #Centrelink, #Charity, #Christmas, #Housing, #Jobseeker, #Politics, #RaiseTheRate

Half-Term for Labor... and a 50-50 2pp? https://phonakins.com/2023/11/27/half-term-for-labor-and-a-50-50-2pp/ #Budget, #Centrelink, #Disability, #Dsp, #Family, #Housing, #Jobseeker, #Labor, #Medicare, #Palestine, #RaiseTheRate, #Twitter, #Welfare

#auspol #RaiseTheRate #SocialSecurity #Activism

Righto all you tooters. It's time we started work on raising the pressure on the current government to care for the least advantaged in our country. The Stage 3 Tax Cuts are wrong, giving big boost to income of top earners, while taking more tax from the poorest.

Rate rate of all Social Security payments need to be increased to allow those recipients to at least to survive and maybe, just maybe start to thrive a little and see some hope.

So please, sign this letter to the government, ring the PM's office, ring your federal MP. Life as a bottom feeder is not real good.

https://www.acoss.org.au/media-releases/?media_release=politicians-advocates-and-prominent-australians-call-for-jobseeker-increase-in-federal-budget