Cope attempt

We’re on fire

• Australia is yet again on fire.

Union news

• Deliveroo riders have elected health and safety representatives, and are trying to force the company to comply with the Work Health and Safety Act.
• Google workers have formed the Alphabet Union.
• Venture capitalist Mike Solana reckons it’s a LARP.
• Microsoft workers (not IBM) protested to stop the company working with ICE.

Diet coup

• Alan Jones leading protests at parliament house.
• Sky News drives right-wing extremism in the US.
• Australia helped pave the way for the US insurrection.
• The Q viking dude inside the Capitol was posting Sky news on his Facebook page.
• The Christchurch shooter was deeply ingrained in US politics and conspiracy theories.
• Australian politicians George Christenson and Craig Kelly tried to claim the the Capitol rioters were Antifa.
• Scott Morrison refused to condem Donad Trump for encouraging the insurrection.
• The Australia Labor party criticised Scott Morrison in a tweet. Joel Fitzgibbon didn’t want to be associated with it.

Coronavirus

• Brisbane has Coronavirus, and is in a three-day lockdown.
• Brisbane’s rules require masks as long as you’re out of the house.
• Victoria instituted a hard border lockdown with NSW on New Years Eve.
• Many people are still locked out of Victoria.
• A woman suffered a miscarriage while traveling back from NSW, and faced horrific treatment from police.
• The Twitter drips were nightmarish about it.
• The NSW Police let the two Germans through to Victoria.

Cashless christmas

• The Indue cashless welfare card had on outage over Christmas/New Years, so people were unable to access their money for three days.
• There was another outage in 2019.
• There are a long list of rules that restrict what people can do with their card.
• There is no evidence that the cashless welfare cards improve outcomes for the people on them.
• Mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has spent years trying to push the card.
• Pauline Hanson says the quiet part out loud.

Actions

• Support the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union.
• Listen to the 7AM Podcast series, Climate change will kill you.