Unemployed advocates welcome new poverty inquiry, but Centrelink payment increase cannot wait
Welfare recipients cannot pay the price of further delaying action – low payment levels are harming and killing people
Indexation is no increase: Albanese government spin hides entrenched poverty crisis
Welfare recipients will be no better off despite claims that indexation is an “increase” to Centrelink payments. Government boasts of “increase” to Centrelink payments harms welfare recipients and perpetuates the same myths as Morrison.
MEDIA ALERT: Unemployed workers to hold “mini employment summit” on parliament lawns today
Event organised by unemployed advocates will go ahead despite being denied approval
Welfare recipients respond to Jobs and Skills summit
Unemployed, disabled and low income people are the real experts in what we need
Unemployed advocates hold “mini jobs summit” at Parliament House
Event organised by unemployed advocates will go ahead despite being denied approval
Robodebt royal commission rings hollow as Labor creates another debt collection “human tragedy”
Robodebt royal commission is a distraction from the government ramping up "debt" collection against welfare recipients in July. They must immediately cease raising and pursuing Centrelink debts.
Rishworth, don’t repeat past mistakes in disability employment with “reforms” that pander to providers
Hallmarks of past failures evident in Disability Employment Services Consultation Report. What disabled people need is less rhetoric and more control, not another disaster like the Workforce Australia rollout.
Labor government confirm compulsory income management will continue
Election promise to abolish cashless welfare was nothing but misdirection
Albanese: abandon Morrison’s eugenicist approach to COVID response
The government has the power to implement simple changes to prevent the spread of COVID among people in poverty.
Antipoverty Centre condemns Labor’s disturbing plan to raise debts against welfare recipients
The government has quietly announced it will ramp up debt collection against people who rely on Centrelink payments to survive