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The Australian federal government can’t make targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, ending blak deaths in custody, ending poverty & homelessness... were you actually surprised it can’t make targets for vaccinations?

@DanielBleakley You know this *is* how government works...right? This is how neoliberal capitalism functions.

Australia doesn't have a government. We have a marketing agency with fossil fuel funding which has a singular objective of thieving public money for its mates and donors.

@FinancialReview Universities aren’t businesses, they’re public education institutions, and Minister Tudge needs to fund them properly.

Alan Tudge says disruption to the $37.5 billion international education sector from COVID-19 gives universities time to rethink their business models. bit.ly/3ue6BJT

@txttimes3 One can only hope the proposed venue is already full of angry staff & students and it has to be cancelled before he can even get to campus :)

Protest action 8.30 am tomorrow (Weds) in Bowen St. RMIT University Council has invited the Minister for Education, Alan Tudge MP, to speak on the future of International education in Australia. RUSU strongly objects to this engagement, & to Minister Tudge’s presence at RMIT.

@FrenchProfessor @ArtsUnimelb @UniMelb This is great to hear, and we need more Melb Uni staff speaking up, but there is a huge problem with transphobia & transmisogyny at Melb Uni. Anti-trans content is being taught, there are barely any trans teaching staff, many trans students don’t feel safe :(

On Transgender Day of Visibility, I as Dean of @ArtsUnimelb join with my fellow @UniMelb senior leaders in offering a message of hope and encouragement: to all our trans students and staff, know that you belong here, you are welcome, we stand with you 🏳️‍⚧️ youtu.be/x0w3tEtRQ0k

As horrific reports of the coup regime’s brutality are coming in, we have also been receiving images of large-scale anti-coup protests happening today. In Pale, in Sagaing, more than 100,000 people, including monks and nuns, estimated to have taken part. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

If ALP & Coalition MPs, party members & voters really care about stopping violence within &outside Parliament House, they should committ to a whole lot more than merely condemning individual politicians. Need systemic response from people in control, incl ALP

Parliament House has always bred violence, not only interpersonal & gendered violence, but structural violence. It is literally the decision-making body of a genocidal colony, intent on maintaining an exploitative economic system & a divided society. #auspoI

@PRGuy17 If sex work is a professional occupation, I wonder why Labor governments continue to criminalise it, creating less safe workplaces for women who do sex work?

Key point to remember today: Sex work is a professional occupation, remember that. The question of staffers being required to organise sex workers for MPs at Parliament House is a question of professional standards of parliamentarians, not sex workers.

@PRGuy17 Well, he can always count on labor hacks like you giving him airtime & PR even when he slinks away.

Why does he always go missing on the rare occasions he's actually needed? #FindingScomo

Around 60 people protested in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) today, calling for increases to centrelink payments, no payment cut offs, no CDP & an end to the ongoing NT Intervention! #80aDay #BTPM #RaiseTheRate

Big rally in Adelaide on the weekend, demanding to #RaiseTheRate to #80aDay and end mutual obligation requirements! #BTPM

Today 12noon in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)! #80aDay #BTPM #RaiseTheRate

'It's quite likely JobKeeper could end up being the biggest corporate welfare scheme Australia has ever run, with billions of taxpayer dollars transferred into the pockets of the wealthy, minus of course the mutual obligations associated with welfare' abc.net.au/news/2021-03-2…

@KKeneally Anyi-terror laws & state policing *is* right-wing extremism. We need strong & widespread antifascism & anti-racism & anti-colonialism in our communities.

Melbourne ‘Break the Poverty Machine’ rally takes to the streets to #RaiseTheRate to #80aDay #BTPM

The Melbourne rally has marched to the Fair Work Commission. #BTPM #80aDay

and Fair Go for Pensioners, and of course AUWU

Delegations from all kinds of unions here at the Melbourne rally: RAHU, AMWU, HACSU, RAFFWU, UWU, Earthworker, and others :) #BTPM #80aDay