84 — How dare you give us $300?

Pros and cons of chucking a sickie. Should the government should pay us $300 or give it to Tabcorp? TERF madness is spreading in Australia.

 

Sickie for the boys

• 60% of Australia is back in lockdown.
• A NSW Tradie chucked a sickie, saying he had Covid.
• There’s Covid in the Flemington housing towers again. But the response has been a bit more humane this time.
• People in Victorian public housing have had access to on-site vaccinations.

Fuck you, pay me

• The ALP have suggested that people should be paid $300 to encourage vaccine uptake.
• Scott Morrison called it an insult.
• …but is in talks with Tabcorp to run a lottery.

Fortress Australia

• The walls of Fortress Australia keep getting higher.
• Some people will need to wait up to four years for Centerlink support.

TERF wars

• Laurel Hubbard is one of first openly transgender athletes to compete in the Olympics. The TERFs went mad.
• Tracy Holmes’s interview with Laurel shows that the media are only interested in her as a spectacle, not about women’s sports.
• Tasmanian Senator Clair Chandler is bringing the bathroom wars to Australia.
• Gold medalist Quinn, is a non-binary transgender athlete who plays for the Canadian women’s soccer team.
• Hormone levels are used to discriminate against black women. There’s nothing scientific about it.

Actions

• Go get your bloody vaccine.