(
Archive for 'Single mothers'
Kim Carr and me
Posted by John, July 31st, 2013 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Kim Carr, Labor Party, Refugees, Single mothers, Single parent payment, Universities.
Comments: none
This is me at Kim Carr’s launch at the ANU of his new book on why you should sell your soul to the devil and join the ALP.
Advertisement
Labor values: $3 bn for drones but even greater poverty for single parents and big cuts for Universities
Posted by John, May 1st, 2013 - under Asylum seekers, Defence, Education, Single mothers, Single parent payment, Universities.
Comments: 2
Funding the defence killing machine; attacking workers and the poor – these are Labor’s real values; these are Labor’s priorities.
How the poor are shunted into deeper poverty just for political capital
Posted by John, January 3rd, 2013 - under Australian Labor Party, Jenny Macklin, Labor Party, Neoliberalism, Single mothers, Single parent payment, The Age, The dole.
Comments: 27
Yours truly in today’s The Age on Jenny Macklin, the dole and driving single Mums into more poverty. I argue we need to fight industrially against the neoliberal Labor Party to end this sort of systemic misogyny. Here are a few snippets: ‘The rich are getting richer and we are not bothering to fight […]
I could live on $6321 a week
Posted by John, January 2nd, 2013 - under ACOSS, Inequality, Jenny Macklin, Newstart allowance, OECD, Poverty, Single mothers, Single parent payment, The dole.
Comments: 8
The shift of wealth to the rich over the last few decades and increasing poverty has been in part because we workers haven’t fought back. The time has come to tell the very very well paid Jenny Macklin and the ruling class she represents that the poverty she and the rest of the Gillard Labor government create through their deliberate policies has to end now. That can only come about through a massive societal and industrial campaign to prioritise the poor and working class over the rich and business.
Gillard, Abbott, sexism and single mums
Posted by John, October 9th, 2012 - under Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Peter Slipper, Racism, sexism, Single mothers, Tony Abbott.
Comments: 19
Instead of taxing Gina Rinehart, the world’s richest woman, Labor is attacking single mums, some of the least well off women in Australia. Maybe it’s time for the social media crowd to defend them in a massive campaign against Gillard.
Single mothers protest against poverty
Posted by John, April 22nd, 2010 - under Fighting back, Poverty, Single mothers.
Comments: 7
Single mothers are now in a desperate financial situation. They have been left with no choice but to take to the streets and protest against this Labor government’s policies during an election year.