Poverty and suicide: What is Preventable?
Poverty and suicide: What is Preventable? Please Note: This report goes in depth on sensitive topics that can…
Debt forgiveness urgently needed as poor people suffer from high energy costs
The Antipoverty Centre is calling for immediate intervention from energy companies and government in response to today’s annual electricity and gas markets report published by the Australian Energy Regulator.
In Anti-Poverty Week support poor people not poverty profiteers
Another year, another Anti-Poverty Week, and still the poverty industry fails to prioritise the expertise of people in poverty.
Preventing suicide relies on ending poverty
One third of suicide deaths are people on JobSeeker or the Disability Pension
Housing quality project
Housing quality project The Antipoverty Centre housing quality project draws on an in-depth survey of 400 peopleof all…
Change to Commonwealth Rent Assistance excludes millions and is embarrassingly low
In response to the government’s announcement of a 10% change to the maximum rate of Commonwealth Rent Assistance, the Antipoverty Centre is calling on the government to stop tinkering with Centrelink payments and take meaningful action so that welfare recipients are no longer left behind.
No solace for distressed welfare recipients in Workforce Australia inquiry response
4 million payment suspension notices were issued since the Workforce Australia inquiry was announced – how many more people will suffer while we wait for promised change?
The Design, oversight and monitoring of employment services reforms 2024
The Design, oversight and monitoring of employment services reforms July 2024 The Antipoverty Centre and other civil society…
Victorian rental standards 2024
Victorian rental standards 2024 This is an open letter to the Victorian government sharing concerns and recommendations to…
An irresponsible budget: No meaningful relief in sight for millions locked in poverty
Welfare recipients are tired of being told the pennies we are thrown will somehow hold back the crushing weight of housing and other living cost increases we are dealing with. We are further behind now when Anthony Albanese took office and promised us things would change for the better.