Today harsh Centrelink penalties return – this new rights book will arm welfare recipients facing “mutual” obligations abuses
Minister Rishworth refuses to say she has confidence the system is lawful Today the Antipoverty Centre is releasing…
Advocacy organisations alarmed by return of Centrelink payment cancellations that were unlawfully operated
Today the secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has announced that powers to cancel social…
Plibersek’s charity funding in Anti-Poverty Week is an insult to people in poverty
Consecutive governments have failed people in poverty and shifted the blame to escape responsibility and culpability for harm…
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.
Antipoverty Centre response to discussion paper: Shaping the future of employment services
Antipoverty Centre response to discussion paper: Shaping the future of employment services | August 2026 “If you self-identify…
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
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…
RALLY FOR JOSH PARK-FING: 10 years since Work for the Dole site death
To mark the ten years since Josh’s death, Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union members will be gathering at Minister…
Welfare recipients struggle to stomach pitiful indexation “increase” as prices soar
As the government celebrates its generosity, the cold reality is that what lands in our bank accounts is a pittance that leaves us further behind