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We’re a national, lived-experience and volunteer led campaign working to end partner income testing across all affected payments.
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[Image description: 5 slides with alternating orange and cream backgrounds and black text explain partner income testing, its impacts, campaign progress and ways to get involved. The first features the Services Australia logo and Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek. Later slides include an income threshold table, news clippings and an orange handprint logo.]
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2 days agorachelle_e_k
It's the marriage/relationship inequality no one talks about and this test is at the centre of it.
3 days agofelonyjayne
Partner income testing removes financial autonomy and for people experiencing domestic or family violence the reliance on their partner’s money invites a very dangerous form of coercive control via financial abuse. The financial burden for people with chronic health conditions, disabilities and debilitating injuries is a human rights abuse. If you cannot afford to pay for your essential mediations and treatment and rent, food or essential services and you must choose between your human right to secure housing, safe food, medication, treatment etc. this is government ordained violation of human rights as defined in Australia.
3 days agoluc.r.ish
Partner income testing and Centrelink started during Australia's Great Depression. A time when there were still outdated concepts of male breadwinners providing for their family. It was essentially a posterity measure as the government was basically drowning in interest repayments on loans from Britain and the USA. A time when the economy was basically, wool, wheat, and sugar. Basically an agricultural nation whose economy was struck hard by reduced demand for those products. So it is a remnant of a completely different time.
3 days agomadsinavan
Partner income testing needs to stop. Their money is their money, like our money is our money. Just because we have disabilities, doesn't mean we can't be financially independent and be with someone who earns more whilst remaining financially independent.
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