urban geographer, community sector worker
Wollongong, New South Wales
Joined February 2011
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Craig Lyons retweeted
The rent freeze announcement and upcoming rent controls have been bringing out some absolutely bonkers arguments from landlords, so here is a quick thread debunking some of the biggest myths out there on rent controls:
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
All opal machines at train stations in Sydney and NSW will be turned off indefinitely, from Wednesday next week.
If there is no way to tap on or off, you cannot be fined. Please remain vigilant as the NSW Premier may try various tactics to turn machines on.
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Immediate 'rent freeze' in Scotland announced for private and social sectors! (until Mar 2023). Years of work by @Living_Rent behind this. Next steps are a proper programme of public housing investment and the expropriation of empty homes for universal social need.
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Fred Moore was a legend. Honorary Aboriginal Elder, helped establish Aboriginal Advancement League, lifelong honorary member of Mining Women’s Auxiliary & I learned yesterday he passed the first motion in the world to make an annual donation to the ANC struggle against apartheid
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Today is International Tenants' Day. While we renters are awesome and should be celebrated 👏 👏 , our housing conditions … hmmm, not so much. How do we go about changing this? When renters organise, we can win! First step: RSVP to this! tenants.org.au/news/make-ren…
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The latest #AHURIResearch report; Understanding discrimination effects in private rental housing,
is now available to download. The report was undertaken by researchers from @Sydney_Uni .
View here: bit.ly/3zCpzwU
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Today Overland is proud to publish an open letter—wondefully illustrated by @wallmansam—in support of the union campaign at Better Read Than Dead, 'a litmus test for Australian literature and for retail working conditions across the continent.'
overland.org.au/2021/07/our-…
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Enough is enough. Communities across Greater Sydney are in desperate need of more support to get through this lockdown and ensure everyone is safe.
We need proper income support and JobKeeper, and for the eviction bans to be reinstated. Our health and livelihoods depend on it.
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Why can’t we have teams of multilingual nurses walking south western sydney, answering questions about COVID19, and what we need to do to look after each other?
v important thread. Same thing happening down the coast on Crown St Wollongong and in Corrimal:
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Palestinian Trade Unions call for immediate and urgent action from international Trade Unions. For translations and model motion see here shorturl.at/mBCH5 #SaveSheikhJarrah #Gaza #Solidarity
Astonishingly, at the same time as cutting Jobseeker, and as eviction moratoriums end, the Fed govt are proposing to cut $57 million from homelessness services, putting over 500 frontline jobs at risk. Sign the petition here: megaphone.org.au/petitions/d…
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I'm stoked to be working on a new @arc_gov_au project with @lifeofstuff, @craigmlyons, @LTaksa and @AW_Geo, examining shifting industrial landscapes, with a focus on ports. Our first paper is out, on covid-19 implications. #geographymatters @ACCESS_GEOG onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
