SURVEY: 93% of welfare recipients say “mutual” obligations harm mental and physical health
$4 billion-a-year privatised employment services system does not find people work
Government must support lifting how much welfare recipients can earn before payment cuts
People on JobSeeker currently lose up to 79 cents in the dollar from paid work
Labor betrays welfare recipients on cashless welfare in reversal of election promise
New compulsory income control bill passes despite Linda Burney’s promise that income control would be voluntary and that compulsion is not Labor’s position
Budget shows politicians can’t be trusted with the lives of welfare recipients
The Labor Party leaves millions behind, it's time to take the power to set rates out of the hands of politicians.
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.