Research assistant, child disability advocate, and socialist. Interests: pedagogy, psychology, ASD, and dyspraxia. Tweets are personal views, not endorsements.
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Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
RBA Reassures Australians They’ll Stop Raising Interest Rates as Soon as Economy Collapses
theshovel.com.au/2026/09/30/…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Banks now make a staggering $266,000 profit from the average owner-occupier 30-year home loan of $731,000 – up $40,000 since interest rates started rising earlier this year.
Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/po…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
It’s time for government intervention.
“If our economy can only be saved by making millions suffer, maybe it's time we built a different economy.”
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Australians are having to choose between food and soap or toothpaste.
We can do better than this as a country.
We're a wealthy country. This about choices - like deciding not to have a windfall profits tax to get a return for 🇦🇺 during an energy crisis, or not getting a return on our gas exports.
That's money that could go to dealing with root causes of cost of living - housing, energy costs and transport.
smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
When public servants give evidence in a public hearing, about jobs that the public pays them to do, their answers should be direct, unambiguous, and detailed. That is the contract between the public and government. Any suggestion otherwise goes against that agreement.
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Some of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winter.
Since privatisation UK gas storage capacity reduced to about 8 - 12 days, EU has 80 -120 days.
UK is net importer of electricity.
Wars, Privatisation and profiteering take toll.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Nailed!!
Woolworths & Coles
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SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS STORE MANAGERS, BUT I'M DONE.
I just pulled $140 worth of groceries off the shelf, carried them across the store, scanned every item myself at a self-checkout kiosk, bagged every single item, and tapped my own card.
Then the machine screen flipped around and asked:
"Would you like to round up your total to donate to corporate charity?"
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
You eliminated 12 cashier jobs to cut corporate payroll, forced me to provide free manual labor for 15 minutes just to buy food, and now you want ME to fund your tax write-off?
If I'm doing the work of an employee, give me a 10% self-checkout discount at checkout.
Stop asking for tips and donations at kiosks where I did 100% of the work.
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS STORE MANAGERS, BUT I'M DONE.
I just pulled $140 worth of groceries off the shelf, carried them across the store, scanned every item myself at a self-checkout kiosk, bagged every single item, and tapped my own card.
Then the machine screen flipped around and asked:
"Would you like to round up your total to donate to corporate charity?"
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
You eliminated 12 cashier jobs to cut corporate payroll, forced me to provide free manual labor for 15 minutes just to buy food, and now you want ME to fund your tax write-off?
If I'm doing the work of an employee, give me a 10% self-checkout discount at checkout.
Stop asking for tips and donations at kiosks where I did 100% of the work.
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
In the last year, 1 in 5 parents sent a child to school without enough to eat. Coles and Woolies $5.3 billion profit in that year is enough to feed every child in poverty for the whole year, and then some. Check out the Greens plan for a publicly owned supermarket that would save you 30% on groceries 👇🏼
greeninstitute.org.au/fair-g…
canberratimes.com.au/story/9…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Obscene bank profits are never enough - $15.1b in combined profits and they still hunt for ways to sack thousands of staff - this time using AI as the driver. The issue here is the profits, not the workers.
ALT Some of Australia's biggest companies are axing thousands of staff. It may come back to bite them
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Comparison with European monarchies is not easy but the UK King seems to receive generous public funding, £99.9m.
£42m in Norway
£52m in the Netherlands
£18m in Denmark
£13.5m in Sweden
£7.1m in Spain
Zero in Liechtenstein
Good value for money, or not?
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
The economic system the government oversees is a wreck — given one in every seven Australians live their lives buried by poverty.
“3,700,000 Australians live in poverty, including one in seven adults and one in six children.”
It’s Anti-Poverty Week this week, and I stood with colleagues and community advocates to remind the Gov that while 3.7 million Australians live in poverty, including one in seven adults and one in six children, the Gov’s priorities are clearly out of whack #auspol #raisetherate
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
The housing crisis is engineered by government policy.
“Politicians talk about the housing crisis the way they talk about drought, as something that happened to us.”
A summit to replace Australia’s housing casino. Build homes, not excuses michaelwest.com.au/a-summit-… via @MichaelWestBiz
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
Thousands of Australians are dying due to lack of government services.
Every day 17 frail older people die waiting for help at home that doesn’t arrive. Every one of them had already been through the approval process (which is taking up to a year) & then died waiting. Labor aged care failure. @AlboMP @AustralianLabor
hellocare.com.au/6436-senior…
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
TAX THE RICH" IS APPARENTLY RADICAL LEFT BUT "LET THE RICH BUY POLITICIANS" IS JUST DEMOCRACY.
Carly D 🇦🇺🏴 retweeted
63% of voters back wealth tax for mega-rich.
Wealth tax can be:
Tax on accumulated wealth
Higher rates on dividends & capital gains
Mansion tax
Investment income surcharge
Cap tax relief on pension contributions by the mega rich
What will Chancellor do?
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/j…
