Join the Zombie March against poverty as part of the national week of action, “Break the Poverty Machine”: 3-5pm, Saturday 13th of March, Addison Road Community Centre. Come in black, and get dusted with flour to become one of the living dead. Event will be filmed.
“Listening to you and some of these callers there’s a sense of dehumanisation about these experiences that is difficult to comprehend if you haven’t been through it.”
The illusion of trickle down economics is being laid bare. Money does not trickle down, it trickles up! Leading economists and business groups are all coming around the argument that Newstart should be increased – not simply because of social justice issues, but to get the economy moving.
Yesterday, the Living in Australia report was released based on the findings of the HILDA (Household, Income, Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey. We are becoming poorer and poorer as a nation. Deeply stressed; and evermore deeply divided.
Pictured: Tom Studans (AUWU), Bev Carter (Community Member), Pas Forgione (ACOSS), Mark Mordue (Media Adviser, Addison Road Community Centre), Rosanna Barbero (CEO, Addison Road Community Centre), Cr Tom Kiat (Inner West Council).
