Antipoverty Centre

Yesterday the social services minister took to Sky News to make abhorrent remarks about civil society organisations representing single mothers, First Nations legal advocates and peak legal and social services bodies.

Civil society organisations representing welfare recipients, First Nations people, survivors of family violence, disabled people and legal experts are calling on the government to scrap a proposed law due to be considered in the senate today that will involve police and ministers in individual social security decisions.

Yesterday afternoon the government shamefully snuck in an amendment granting police powers to stop Centrelink payments into a bill designed to make yet another unlawful Centrelink debt collection scandal go away.

It’s time for Labor to end the shameful welfare policies that leave millions in poverty and despair

Albanese has accused a journalist of verballing him, saying he “deserves respect”, when they asked what it would take for a Labor government to increase JobSeeker and if his advice to unemployed people is to “just get a job”.