Unemployed workers call for Workforce Australia penalty suspension as rollout shambles see fears realised
Employment minister Tony Burke has refused unemployed people's calls for a full suspension of penalties while we adjust to the new system
Minimum wage decision is cold comfort for welfare recipients
Government cannot continue to ignore the urgent need to alleviate cost of living pressure for ALL people on low incomes
Welfare recipients deserve a better future too, but Albanese offers us no hope
Antipoverty activists surviving on welfare call on the new prime minister to honour his mother’s memory by increasing…
Increasing distress among welfare recipients promised only a poverty trap as voting opens
Social security is all but absent from election coverage despite spiralling living costs hitting those on Centrelink payments hardest. Major parties' failure to address poverty crisis must be scrutinised.
Antipoverty activists challenge candidates to dismantle the poverty machine on COVID supplement anniversary
50 years on from the Henderson inquiry it must be the first and highest priority of any politician to ensure everyone has enough to live. There is no other moral position.
Labor, commit to ending Work for the Dole
Work for the Dole punishes the victims of political choices. It must be abolished.
Six years on from Josh Park-Fing’s death, Work for the Dole is overdue for closure
The party of labour must do what's right and commit to ending the punishing forced labour program.
Politicians don’t understand unemployment; they’re failing millions of us as a result
Whoever wins, we lose. Morrison's cynical jobs announcement offers nothing, and the opposition has confirmed it will not increase JobSeeker. We know there is a poverty crisis because we live it.
“Those that need the most get the least”: people in poverty respond to budget
Do-nothing budget ignores poverty crisis masked by low unemployment rate.
Liberal and Labor must match commitment to lift Centrelink payments above the poverty line
Payments must immediately be lifted to at least the Henderson poverty line. The Antipoverty Centre welcomes the Greens policy to end poverty.