by Mick Lawless | December 9, 2022 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Queer rights
You couldn’t plausibly make this stuff up The below quote is from part 2 of my article investigating Labor’s Think Tank Per Capita and their Executive Director Emma Dawson. “Much more could be said about your Per...
by Mick Lawless | December 4, 2022 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Trade unions
Per Capita circle the wagons A longstanding Twitter feud between Per Capita’s Emma Dawson and the Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) has reached that seemingly inevitable stage whereby Per Capita (the powerful and influential...
by admin | September 13, 2022 | Australia's move to the Right, Indigenous affairs, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Racism
As Labor abolishes the cashless debit card, it has retained the racialised BasicsCard that overwhelmingly targets First Nations people Before the election, Labor promised to “abolish” compulsory income management and the cashless debit card. It was part...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Environment, Foreign policy, Indigenous affairs, Media, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Technology
What is Robodebt? Best to examine what Robodebt is before challenging the apologist orthodoxy that has emerged to excuse Labor’s role in its creation. “The Robodebt scheme, formally Online Compliance Intervention...
by admin | April 24, 2022 | Australia's move to the Right, Health, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues
On the sixth anniversary of Josh Park-Fing’s death the program that killed him, and injured countless others, has not been reformed. But there is no acceptable form of coercive labour. It must be abolished in our welfare system, in prisons and in subminimum wage...
by admin | April 2, 2022 | Australia's move to the Right, Health, Homelessness, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues
There’s a belief out there that poverty is something, someone, somehow deserves. They haven’t worked hard enough, they didn’t study properly, they made bad decisions. Certain people want to believe this instead of having to confront the idea...
by admin | April 1, 2022 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Foreign policy, Hillsong, Media, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Religion
As most of you guessed – this was my April Fool piece An opportunity to get some satire and future history into an article and to challenge prevailing political orthodoxies. A very enjoyable task, albeit tinged with the sadness of what could have been....
by admin | October 29, 2020 | Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Technology
CDC is a triumph of ideology over evidence. The problem does not exist & the solution does not work. It’s part of the government agenda to shame and stigmatise people accessing social security. A thread. Submission on Cashless Welfare Bill 2020...