Antipoverty Centre

The constant calls from industry, and now a mental health support service, for JobKeeper are misdirected and fail to understand what we need in the face of uncertainty and rolling lockdowns.

Government vaccination disaster left us exposed to COVID, they must take responsibility and make income support liveable

The parliament must not be bullied into passing dangerous, half-baked changes to social security law

Contempt for democratic process will leave hundreds of thousands of unemployed people worse off.

We need a dramatic increase in public housing. There is no way to structure income support payments that doesn't create an opportunity for landlords to extract wealth from the poorest people in society.