684,360 left behind: shameful proposal to restrict JobSeeker increase to over 55s
Welfare recipients urge government not to introduce more age discrimination in response to reports of JobSeeker increase for over 55s
Antipoverty Centre response: Government rejects key proposal of pointless report on raising welfare payments
It’s what we all knew would happen, and it happened.
Parliamentary friends of ending poverty must not repeat failures of Economic “Inclusion” Committee
The Antipoverty Centre was disappointed to learn about the establishment of the parliamentary friends of ending poverty through…
Welfare recipients to tell senate inquiry Labor’s housing fund will fail
Labor is wasting its opportunity for generational housing reform on a policy that will take us backwards and may not deliver any homes at all. It is time for a return to more universal access to public housing.
More submarines promise more intergenerational inequality
There is no “national security“ when millions of people are under threat from poverty and climate change.
Labor betrays welfare recipients with push for new cashless welfare powers
First Labor failed to deliver on its commitment to abolish all compulsory income control. Now they're opening the door to more of it.
Indexation is no increase: Rishworth must stop misleading people about Centrelink payments
Labor again copies the Coalition's disingenuous approach of announcing behind-inflation welfare changes as an “increase”
Antipoverty Centre welcomes call to abolish ParentsNext and demands MO suspension for ALL employment services
The interim report has recognised the harm of mutual obligations and payment suspensions, use this report to act on all employment services.
Unemployed advocates to address first poverty inquiry in 50 years
Hearing begins at 10:15am AEDT in Canberra today
New Economic “Inclusion” Committee terms of reference reveal recipe for exclusion
Terms of reference for the committee secured by David Pocock was tabled in the senate on Wednesday