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TONIGHT: About us not for us – What the Workforce Australia inquiry means for welfare recipients

December 13, 2023

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

November 30, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

November 24, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

November 13, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

October 19, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

August 16, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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$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

July 31, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

June 22, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

May 10, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

May 1, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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Welfare recipients urge government not to introduce more age discrimination in response to reports of JobSeeker increase for over 55s