The story of Pesach is one of resilience, faith, and strength in the face of adversity.

To all who celebrate, Chag Pesach Sameach.

Mate, you just gave $50b to the defence industry, you can afford to help struggling students.

#budget #auspol

Uni & TAFE should be free & all student debt wiped. Let’s start by abolishing indexation & providing some relief to people being weighed down by an ever ballooning debt.

Join me in demanding Labor take action to end the student debt crisis:
greens.org.au/campaigns/stud…

Labor refused demands from the Greens to protect students from huge debt increases last year, but there's still time to stop the massive indexation hit coming again this June.

No more tinkering around the edges. In the May budget, Labor must scrap indexation on student debt.

No more lacklustre changes that don’t fix the crisis.

Rather than gifting $313b to the wealthy in tax cuts & wasting $368b on war machines, Labor must stop the student debt spiral for people who just wanted an education.

Financial costs should never be a barrier to uni & TAFE.

There’s also talk of capping indexation at 3 or 4%.

A cap of 4% still means at least a $1k hike in the avg. HECS debt and almost $3k for someone with a $70,000 debt.

A hike people should not be slugged with in a cost of living crisis.

One idea being floated is setting indexation to whichever is lower, CPI or WPI. But this is just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.

WPI is usually higher than CPI (including this year according to the govt’s projections) so this change will make little difference.

People are being crushed by #hecs debts. They need more than just crumbs.

The govt acts like a bank, indexing people through the roof & there’s no good reason for it. They rake in more from #studentdebt than from taxing gas corps.

No measly tweaks, Labor. Just scrap indexation.

Busting up a peaceful picnic that happens every year without incident? Hell of a set of priorities there #Legaliseit

And this little echidna had zero interest in us. Focused entirely on a bunch of tasty Adelaide ants.

It was lovely to see a bunch of koalas on a single walk. This one was very regal.

Taking a day off to spend in nature today. We went on a beautiful waterfall circuit with koalas, emus and an echidna, in Belair NP just outside Adelaide.

The Australian bush is magical, unique and so worth fighting for.

This puts AUKUS in context. It’s about placing Australia in a subordinate role within the U.S. war machine.

Not sovereignty, but subservience.

Let’s be clear this man is a former Home Affairs secretary (not Defence) and left in circumstances that are best described as notorious.

So why this war drum profiling?

Australia needs a plan for war to ‘focus the national mind’, Michael Pezzullo says. theguardian.com/australia-news…

In Darwin today for the Senate Inquiry on missing and murdered First Nations women and children.

NT Police have told us they have zero First Nations Commissioned Officers.

Zero out of 50 or so Inspectors, Commanders, Assistant or Deputy Commissioners or Commissioner.

None.

Rental crisis, housing crisis, climate crisis.

But no worries, Labor's got a tick from the International Monetary Fund for its austerity measures! 🫠

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The parents of these 375 Australian-born children could face orders to facilitate with their own and their kids’ deportation under Labor’s bill – because they’ve had protection claims denied under the controversial fast-track method

Read more here 👇
theguardian.com/australia-news…