Time To Talk: Universal Wellbeing Payment

We should all be in this together.

Workers across the state have once again been plunged into financial precarity as COVID lockdowns mean industries are put on hold, casual shifts are cut, and patchy government support leaves many unable to afford the essentials.

We’re not all in this together, but we could be.

No matter who you are or what you do, everyone has the right to share in the wellbeing of our country – during the good times and the hard.

Exclusionary supplements and arbitrary thresholds on disaster payments just don’t cut it. The Government can and should guarantee an income for everyone, so that we all have what we need to live a good life without anyone falling through the cracks.

What’s more, taking the stress of keeping food on the table and paying the bills off everyone’s shoulders will make it that much easier to follow the rules to keep everyone safe, and ensure we make it through this pandemic together.

No conditions, no strings attached – just the certainty of knowing that, whatever happens, you will have enough money, not just to survive but to thrive.

This health crisis is new, but the inequality it has exacerbated isn’t. It’s time to talk about visionary solutions to COVID precarity and what a basic income could mean for NSW – now and post-COVID.

Join me in conversation as we discuss the need for a Universal Wellbeing Payment and what it would mean for young people across the state.

Our speakers:

Dylan Griffiths is a Greens candidate for Inner West Council and is campaigning to make council services more affordable. He currently works at the University of Sydney and is a member of the NTEU. He has previously spent far too long on the phone arguing with Centrelink.

Harpreet Kaur Dhillon is a queer community organiser dedicated to the safety, security, mental and physical wellbeing of others. She has lived experiences of family violence, sexual violence, homelessness and discrimination that she seeks to eliminate in society.

Avery Howard is a queer non-binary person who uses their personal experience of poverty and homelessness to advocate as an anti-poverty activist. They are also the Greens Candidate for the North Ward of Liverpool City Council.

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August 05, 2021 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Zoom

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TAX SUPERPROFITS TO PAY WORKERS MORE

NSW is missing out on tens of billions of dollars. By introducing a progressive coal royalty structure similar to the one in Queensland, we would have raised an extra $20 billion last year.

The NSW Government owns and controls, on behalf of the people of this state, the rights to the minerals and materials that naturally occur in NSW land.

Huge fossil fuel companies are only able to extract and sell these commodities with the consent of the State. It’s time they paid a fair price for that privilege.

The fossil fuel industry has made hundreds of billions of dollars out of their cosy relationship with governments. Granted permission to extract and sell coal, these large multinational fossil fuel corporations pay just over 7% in royalties back to the people of NSW – keeping the rest as mega-profits for themselves. These companies have a track record of taking more than their fair share and leaving communities suffering and stranded with poisoned groundwater, devastated landscapes and a stranded workforce when it suits their business models.

Globally, the hyper-inflation of fossil fuel prices driven by price-gouging opportunism and war profiteering from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered record windfall profits to these already obscenely wealthy corporations. In the last year, NSW coal exports totaled over $70 billion dollars, but the people of NSW will only see about 7 cents in every dollar, or about $6 billion dollars of that amount.

Rather than going toward schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, billions of dollars went into the pockets of multinational mining corporations. The Greens believe there should be more money for schools and hospitals and less for mining billionaires.

Sign our petition calling on the NSW Labor Government to increase coal royalties to invest in communities.

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