Actions you can take to support welfare rights in Anti-Poverty Week
We want to make sure charities are not the only voices heard in Anti-Poverty Week. Check out the information below about events and other work we’re doing so you can get involved.
Urgent action needed to reduce welfare deaths amid high costs and interest rate rises
Petrol and food cost hikes, coupled with the latest punishing interest rise, require urgent intervention to protect people in poverty from further harm and deaths.
Stop the Bill Shock policy brief: Ending the energy debt trap
A joint report between The Antipoverty Centre, The Sunrise Project, Sweltering cities and Parents for Climate under the Stop the Bill shock campaign that assesses the current state of energy debt in Australia.
Labor rewrites history on cashless welfare as it quietly traps people in income control programs
The Antipoverty Centre is disturbed by comments from Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek and Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri…
Advocacy organisations oppose plans to revive harmful welfare penalties
Members of a government reference group strongly oppose plans to restart some penalties – which have been unlawfully administered – for people on Centrelink payments.
New report exposes aggressive tax minimisation tactics by employment services
A new report has exposed tax minimisation techniques used by employment services, who receive $5 billion in public money each year to enforce welfare compliance.
JobSeeker recipient comes to parliament sharing her journey to reveal abuse of welfare compliance rules
Cheyanne, a young woman from Ballarat, used FOI to access personal records to demonstrate abuse of rules by employment services
TONIGHT: Inside the welfare compliance scandal + mini documentary launch (online event)
Rick Morton joins welfare rights campaigners to discuss the moral and legal questions hanging over the regime of compulsory activities that dominate poor people's lives
Experts calling on the government to abandon Schedule 5
More than 100 academic and legal experts plus 64 civil society organisations oppose the introduction of new powers to cancel welfare payments for someone accused of a serious violent of sexual offence
100,000+ unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations, DEWR admits in estimates hearing
New information revealed yesterday by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations in senate estimates hearings suggests upwards…