#actpol

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(Jokingly) The ACT is once again ahead of the curve with our Greens/Labor coalition falling apart after our state election last year... For real though, the federal Nationals/Liberals coalition falling through is incredibly interesting and I'm excited to see the (hopefully negative) impact it has on both parties lmao.

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Breaking: Nationals won't re-enter into Coalition agreement

Nationals leader David Littleproud has announced the minor party won't re-enter into a coalition agreement with the Liberal Party, ending a

Nationals leader David Littleproud has announced the minor party won't re-enter into a coalition agreement with the Liberal Party, ending a decades long arrangement.

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With the news that the Growth and Renewal project that the ACT Government was using to force public housing tenants out of their property is now completely voluntary (as it should have been, and was originally said to have been to these tenants, in the first place), we need to make sure that not only the ACT Government, but any other government is unable to cause the trauma that their actions, both within the program and deceptive reporting of it to journalists, have again.

For those who don't know, I was unwillingly part of this program as someone who lives in a government house, and shared most of my experience here. To give a quick update to that post, after months of the ACT government delaying the process, we finally had meetings with them earlier in the year and received our exemption on August 1st, just before they announced that they were still going to force those without exemptions to move (which they went back on yesterday).

As I noted in the post, due to their behaviour, I had to leave my job and all financial (and as a result psychological and physical because I had to cut down my psychology and other medical sessions) stability alongside my sense of security or trust in any government, things that I have not been able to reobtain since. And I'm one of the lucky ones. The article above notes that Yvette Berry, the minister for housing, admits that 493 tenants were forced to move. These people lost their lives and security as they knew it in every practical sense. We were all gaslit, mistreated, traumatised, had the community turned onto us through the lies the ACT Government put through the news about us and had our lives stopped for anywhere up to two years because we were stuck sorting this out.

These kind of programs come and go; it may not have the same name or under the same government (because all three parties here knew what was going on, but, despite it being a minority government, didn't stop it until now), but I do not expect this to be the last time a government attempts this kind of behaviour towards vulnerable people. When it comes back around, or when a new law is proposed, I'm insisting that you must think critically and listen to not only what the government at hand is telling you is best for the people, but those impacted by it too. And in the meanwhile, note and fight for the services, free or otherwise, we have that allowed for yesterday's decision to happen. Because without their, the victim's and the community's (including you) pressure, this would have been a lot worse; and coincidedly was a lot worse than it had to be due to not having as much support as we could have.

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Governments will be like “I want you to consider not using your car” and then have the worst public transport ever.

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