urban geographer, community sector worker
Wollongong, New South Wales
Joined February 2011
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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?
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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
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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/…
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The first card has been delivered!!! The current Tenant is paying $1,500. That’s too much.
More info about the cards tomorrow 🏠🏘📩📬
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Abolish "investment" houses. Unmake the landlord class. Stop collecting houses while there are homeless people. Tens of thousands of homes stand empty in Sydney. Millions can't be home-owners because of the barriers, but we're paying off other people's homes, make it make sense
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Episode 1 with @davelkelly and @LibbyJPorter - explaining the impact and implications of the Public Housing Renewal Program - is now live at hiddencitiespodcast.com (or all of the usual podcast providers!)
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looking at the household, education, mutual aid, and the Ruby Princess. gongcommune.wordpress.com/20…
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Next part from GC's Common Threads inquiry, looks at issues around income and work and is based on interviews with a childcare worker, fast food worker, health care workers and workers from the ports and steelworks about the early impacts of the pandemic. gongcommune.wordpress.com/20…
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The NSW Treasurer is making his case to privatise Sydney rail on the day the world is obsessed with the US election results. Why? Because privatisation is as popular as a dead cat and he wants to get the news out today. Greens will always vote to protect public assets.
