Podcasts about unemployed workers union

A school of fish, a murder of crows and a Trumpet of Patriots. First up, Emerald and Tom take a look at the election date predictions (9:34). Then, welfare (14:33) - Greens are pitching a $7.2bn plan to massively expand and boost Youth Allowance and JobSeeker, while NACC now has decided that maybe Robodebt was bad after all. Next, Greens pitch new insurance policy, including abolishing stamp duty and making polluters contribute to increasing premiums (42:01). Does Dutton agree!? Finally, a call to action (1:05:01). ---------- Just released on Patreon - “Inside The Greens #8 : Iraq war & heckling Bush” The show can only exist because of our wonderful Patreon subscriber’s support. Subscribe for $3/month to get access to our fortnightly subscriber-only full episode, and unlock our complete library of over SIXTY past bonus episodes. https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU ---------- Call to action - There’s an election coming! https://greens.org.au/events Check out the platform - https://greens.org.au/platform Unemployed Workers Union - https://antipovertycentre.org/ Rick Morton’ story in the Saturday Paper: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/02/15/exclusive-ten-dead-after-welfare-glitch-ignored-government Serious Danger merch - https://seriousdanger.bigcartel.com/ Produced by Michael Griffin https://www.instagram.com/mikeskillz Follow us on https://twitter.com/SeriousDangerAU https://www.instagram.com/seriousdangerau https://www.tiktok.com/@seriousdangerauSupport the show: http://patreon.com/seriousdangerauSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What will people who are unemployed do when the COVID virus strikes? Recorded 03 March 2020

Shell is posting cringe on International Women's Day, Missy Higgins' dad has Coronavirus, and the Australian government continues their efforts to make corruption a national sport. We try to make sense of the chaos in this blockbuster episode.NewsAll fires are out in New South Wales!It’s International Women’s Day. Celebrate with the horror of this Shell ad.Never forget that International Women’s Day began as a socialist celebration of working women.CoronavirusVox has a detailed and readable summary of what we know about COVID-19 so far. Here’s the direct source for what the experts are saying. The Australian government website is good for a just-the-facts summary of symptoms to look out for and best-practice precautions.Missy Higgins dad has COVID-19, but didn’t meet the health department’s guidelines for testing.Australians are panic-buying toilet paper. As Buzzfeed reports, it started as a media scare, now its becoming a real panic.Panic buying and hoarding is bad for everyone else. It prevents people who are living paycheque to paycheque from being able to purchase the things they need.The poorest people in our society — people on casual work and without sick leave, are also the people who come into contact with the most people.The Liberal government has a history of trying to make it harder for the poorest Australians to the access health care they need.Jeremy Poxon of the Unemployed Workers Union has interrogated Centerlink on the requirements they will place on unemployed people under quarantine, with no clear answer. They have a bad record on this, cutting off the payments of bushfire victims.Government corruptionPenny Wong has accused Scott Morrison of being “up to his neck” in the corruption of the sports rorts.The liberal party attempted to shut down on questions by calling the word “rorts”, “unparlimentary”.Angus Taylor, the government’s minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, was not interviewed by the Federal Police, after his office falsified documents for a fight with Clover Moore, mayor of Sydney.Taylor’s business interests have also raked in $93 million of state and federal funds during his time in office.In extra promoted to guest star news: Glenys Beauchamp, who was in the episode last week destroying documents, has now been found intimidating an academic whistleblowing a data breach of 3 million Australians.Anne Rushton, government’s Minister for Families and Social Services refused to say that Australia’s social security system should not cause harm to the people within it.Bushfires and climate changeThe Morrison government is dropping funding to an international emissions research collaboration.… along with the Bushfire & Natural Hazards research centre.It appears that the much-hyped $2 billion bushfire relief fund may not exist. Only $400,000 has been distributed so far.Angus Taylor (who loves to take $93 million of taxpayer money for his businesses) is trying to keep the Liddel coal power station open to at least 2026, even though it’s not economical.The Australian government has not done modeling of the economic impact of climate change until at least 2013.The gas power plants in Australia have been running at 30% of capacity for the last 18 months — and yet the government are calling for more to be built.ActionsShout out to the Flood Cast from Flood Media — check their series on capitalism and a socialist future. Solidaritus et podcastus ✊Wash your hands, buy a reasonable amount of toilet paper and if you can, take time off from work if you're sick.If you have COVID and your boss makes you work, make sure to take them aside during the day to apologise for trying to slack off (enclosed spaces if possible).

 The government won't raise the rate, recipients are getting chased by robodebts, it's hard to access and it's easy to have your payments cut off. We try to unpack the myriad of issues with the Unemployed Workers Union and a Melbourne law professor, and we chat to a caller who was chased for over $20,000 of debt. On this week's Wavelength with Zane and Jack (filling in for David who's sick) we also speak to Rumpus, the Adelaide theatre collective trying to invigorate our arts scene outside of Mad March, and we hit the streets to see how you're coping with the latest public transport price hike. We also chat about the ongoing fallouts from the Pacific Islands Forum and get you up to date with politics for the week. Wavelength, sparking the convos about Adelaide you should be having. Listen live every Monday at 6pm ACST on Fresh 92.7, the Fresh website, or the Fresh app! Fresh website: https://fresh927.com.au/ Follow Fresh on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fresh927/  Follow Fresh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fresh927/  Follow Fresh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fresh927  Hosts: Zane Dean and Jack Erickson Reporters: Adrian Rodriguez, Amila Dedovic, Madison White

Karun Cowper speaks with Johnny Windus, national advocacy coordinator of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union which is starting to get moving in Perth.

Zane discusses of personal experience of being sent a Centrelink Robo-debtZane discusses article by Ken Canning “January 26 is invasion day”. Ken is a poet and playwright from the Kunja clan of the Bidjara nation in Queensland and currenly lives in Sydney and is helping organise the invasion day protest there. "I have always been of the belief that once you can overturn the colonial mentality consuming our governments— resulting in the continued denial of justice of First Nations peoples and the oppression we all live under — you will, in effect, overturn the same mentality that is keeping 90% of our population prey to the whims of big business-run governments. On January 26, come and join us, walk with us and learn from us. For far too long, knowledge in this country has been confined to the world of academia. We, the First Nations peoples, carry a knowledge as old as time itself. Yes, we are protesting but we are all more than willing to share with those who walk with us." - KCZane discusses article by Fremantle councillor Sam Wainwright “Australia day: Change the date”. Sam discusses Fremantle council's decision to cancel the Jan 26 fireworks and why this caused such an outcry amongst right wing media and politicians. "Our purpose in dropping January 26 should be to focus on the changes we need to make if want a morejust and inclusive society for all." -SWZane interviews Petrina Harley, Lisen here. campaigner with the Save Beeliar Wetlands campaign in Western Australia and Socialist Alliance candidate in the upcoming WA elections. Petrina talks about how the local community have mobilised to try and halt the destruction that the Roe 8 highway extension would unleash. The wetland is a site of cultural significance to the Nyoongar people with artefacts there older than the pyramids, and is an ecologically special place. For more info visit savebeeliarwetlands.com Zane interviews Zeb Parkes, producer of the short film “For my Friends in detention”, which has been shown at several international short film festivals as well as picking up a gong at the Sydney Indie film fest. Zeb discusses the process of making the film and how rather than seeking to again highlight the vast and egregious abuses happening in Australia’s detention gulags, it instead looks at the human face of people in these prisons and those who organise to get them out. Listen here.Zane interviews Ewen Kloas, secretary of the Australian Unemployed Workers union, about the upcoming ‘Dignity not debt’ rally happening on Tuesday Jan 31. Ewen discusses the punitive and unjust nature of the robo-debt system and how it has caused immense distress to welfare recipients, several of whom have contacted the Unemployed Workers Union in a suicidal state. The AUWU is campaigning to have the robo-debt system abolished and a bunch of organisations have endorsed the Jan 31 rally. Listen here.­

First, we cover the distressing story of Australia's first death at a "Work For The Dole" site. Josh Park Fing's family is crowdfunding for the burial of their son and brother and you can sign the Unemployed Workers Union's petition here.Next, we go to the International Memorial for Workers held at the Victorian Trades Hall on April 28th.Lastly, we attend the final hearing of the Hart v Coles dispute in the Fair work Commission.

Interview Owen Bennett from the Unemployed Workers Union  regarding the unemployed workers; A new Bill is to be discussed in the senate which is set out to penalise unemployed people for not attending appointments and many other minor issues;Dave Sweeney from the Australian Consrvation Foundation regarding nuclear waste dumping in South Australia; The ACF said that nuclear energy production is  a dying industry and the growth of renewable energy is tantamount to that; this is a world wide phenomena.Recording of Daniel Nyberg a professor at Newcastle university discussing climate change and the Paris accordHumphrey Mc Queen on the falling rate of profit; Marxist analysis and its relevance today; all his documents are uploaded into solidarity breakfast web site uploaded