Council to Homeless Persons Media Release The number of working Victorians seeking homelessness help has surged to a record high, with a 23% rise over the past five years, according to alarming new data. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 2023/24 Specialist Homelessness Services Annual Report was released today. It found 13,715 employed Victorians…
Homelessness Australia Media Release Homelessness in Australia has reached alarming new levels, with the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) annual data, released today, revealing a deepening emergency. Rough sleeping and persistent homelessness has increased to devastating levels, as more people are missing out on emergency accommodation and housing. The housing crisis continues…
The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and shooting into the sky with adventurist stupidity. The removal of statues and vulgar reminders of a regime. Prisoners freed; torture prisons emptied. The tyrant, deposed. This is the scene in Syria, a war with more…
Of course it’s hard to stay consistent to the values of society because as Saint Margaret of Thatcher said slightly before she lost all reason – or slightly after depending on your politics – “There’s no such thing as society!” And of course, even Maggie wasn’t prepared to tell people that they didn’t need to…
I got brass in a pocket I got bottle, I’m gonna use it Intention, I feel inventive Gonna make you, make you, make you notice ‘Cause I’m gonna make you see There’s nobody else here, no one like me I’m special (special) So special (special) I gotta have some of your attention, give it to…
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National Tertiary Education Union Media Release The National Tertiary Education Union has called for the Fair Work Ombudsman’s new anti-wage theft model at the University of Melbourne – which underpaid workers $72 million – to be adopted nationally. The university has entered into a comprehensive enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman over the underpayments…
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has issued what his statement calls ‘a full and unconditional pardon’ to his son Hunter Biden. The pardon has raised more than a few eyebrows, so I want to look at President Biden’s statement, as well as some of the Federalist Papers written by James Madison describing the original intent…
UNSW City Futures Research Centre Media Release Rough sleeping has surged in Australia according to a landmark report into homelessness launched today. Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 has revealed a 22% increase in people experiencing rough sleeping in the three years to 2023-24, nationwide. In New South Wales, rough sleeping has surged by 51% since 2020,…
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release A new report by ACOSS has found entry-level jobs have declined while long-term unemployment has significantly increased, prompting calls for an overhaul of Australia’s employment services system which is systematically failing. The report, Faces of Unemployment 2024, found that since interest rates began to rise in mid-2022,…
By James Moore “Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king.” (Mark Twain). People in the U.S. are presently pre-occupied with a pair…