MEDIA ALERT: Community groups to call for government action on unsafe temperatures in social housing
Poor people are paying the price with their health and bills after a record breaking summer
Welfare recipients despair over poverty inquiry failure
"No one left behind" rings more hollow with each passing day under the Albanese government
Labor’s cost of living crisis talks must produce Centrelink payment increase say unemployed advocates
A performative political response will not fool people in poverty
TONIGHT: About us not for us – What the Workforce Australia inquiry means for welfare recipients
The Antipoverty Centre and the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union will host an online public meeting about the disappointing Workforce Australia employment services inquiry recommendations and how welfare recipients should respond on Wednesday 13 December.
Burke must immediately pause Centrelink payment suspensions following Workforce Australia inquiry report
Government inquiry admits deeply flawed system – millions of suspension notices were issued in the year of the inquiry
Burke must protect welfare recipients affected by WA fires
70,000 people on Centrelink payments in WA are being subjected to unsafe heat and bushfire risk under threat of payment cuts
Not fit-for-purpose: Shorten must immediately suspend “debt” collection activity
More stress, more physical and psychological harm and more suicides is the inevitable result of pursuing welfare recipients for so-called debts they cannot afford
Rishworth’s economic “inclusion” committee bill insulting to people in poverty
Advice and policies that affect those on the lowest incomes must be led by us, but we are again excluded. The minister cannot expect to be taken seriously with this proposal.
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