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Australian Unemployed Workers Union Canberra

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23.01.2022 Tonight we are launching an official petition calling on the ACT government to disburse $200/week COVID disaster payments to residents on federal income support living below the Henderson Poverty Line (currently $83/day). #KenBehrens please sign and share! Thank you to Andrew Braddock MLA for agreeing to sponsor this petition!

12.01.2022 With a big thanks to Andrew Braddock MLA - Member for Yerrabi for sponsoring our petition, we are demanding that the ACT government #PayPeopleToStayHome and disburse disaster payments of $200/week to all people living on social security. Last year we had the COVID supplement for a much shorter, relaxed lockdown, and we all briefly experienced what it was like to not live in poverty. This year we've got nothing for harsh, indefinite restrictions. It's time for the Territory go...vernment to act. Please sign the petition today and share it among your fellow #KenBehrens - we need 500 signatures inside a week in order to make this an item of business for the next sitting. https://epetitions.act.gov.au/CurrentEPetition.aspx...

12.01.2022 Huge thank you to Erica for sharing her story (and to the Canberra Times for paying attention)! Canberrans on social security payments URGENTLY need financial support. We're petitioning the ACT government to provide ongoing disaster payments, so please sign the petition + share with your networks (ACT residents only): https://epetitions.act.gov.au/CurrentEPetition.aspx https://www.canberratimes.com.au//greens-back-income-supp/

10.01.2022 Huge thank you to Tim Hollo and Andrew Braddock MLA who keep on pushing the ACT government to properly support Canberrans on social security payments!! Check out their ABC Canberra interview below - and sign on to our petition calling for ongoing income support during lockdown (less than 80 signatures to go!): https://epetitions.act.gov.au/CurrentEPetition.aspx

05.01.2022 Our union has been beating the drum for years on how our welfare system destroys people’s mental health. It is designed to punish. Sign and share our petition to demand that the ACT government support our most vulnerable and #PayPeopleToStayHome PETITION LINK: https://epetitions.act.gov.au/CurrentEPetition.aspx The 'experts' featured in this excellent piece by Luke Henriques-Gomes are very late to catch up to what the real experts - those of us living in poverty - have been... saying for years. Our punitive welfare system is a major cause of poor mental health. #BTPM https://www.theguardian.com//experts-urge-higher-income-su We have seen the staggering numbers of people who were issued a #Robodebt that are no longer with us. The brutal nature of our welfare system subjecting so many people to arbitrary and cruel punishment and tests is claiming lives, for payments well below the #HPL on which we can barely survive. Tragically, it will be too late for too many people. In the pandemic alone, the Accountable Income Management Network has found that people living in poverty are between 2.5 and 4 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than wealthy. This piece from Stephanie Dalzell is chilling. https://www.abc.net.au//poorer-australians-four-/100448564 These are deliberate policy choices made by government, and we’ve had enough. We demand that Andrew Barr ACT Chief Minister's ACT Government make the humane policy choice to support all of us currently living below the poverty line to gain at least a basic level of security. Please sign and share our petition and force the government to listen to its constituents crying out for support. https://epetitions.act.gov.au/CurrentEPetition.aspx

04.01.2022 Thank you to Andrew Braddock MLA - Member for Yerrabi for working closely with us to make our voice heard in a hall of government power, the ACT Legislative Assembly. We are sadly still yet to see movement from ACT Government on this, but our members are heartened by your efforts. At our recent branch meeting we passed a motion thanking you and your office for giving our members an all important ray of hope.