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No solace for distressed welfare recipients in Workforce Australia inquiry response

July 5, 2024

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?

Welfare recipients despair over poverty inquiry failure

February 29, 2024

Antipoverty Centre

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"No one left behind" rings more hollow with each passing day under the Albanese government

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

December 13, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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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

Update

Government inquiry admits deeply flawed system – millions of suspension notices were issued in the year of the inquiry

Welfare recipients to tell senate inquiry Labor’s housing fund will fail

March 15, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

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Labor is wasting its opportunity for generational housing reform on a policy that will take us backwards and may not deliver any homes at all. It is time for a return to more universal access to public housing.

Unemployed advocates to address first poverty inquiry in 50 years

February 27, 2023

Antipoverty Centre

Update

Hearing begins at 10:15am AEDT in Canberra today

DSP inquiry report a “slap in the face” to disabled people says advocate

February 18, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

People with disability are suffering in the welfare system – sweeping change to the Disability Support Pension is undeniably necessary and urgent

“The government should offer us euthanasia”: senate inquiry hears stories of DSP failings

September 6, 2021

Antipoverty Centre

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The government is forcing disabled people into extreme poverty, harmful employment programs and pervasive unfair practices are leading Centrelink to deny the DSP to those who are entitled to it

Disability advocates to condemn widespread failings of DSP at parliamentary inquiry

September 5, 2021

Antipoverty Centre

Update

The DSP is forcing disabled people into extreme poverty, harmful employment programs and pervasive unfair practices are leading Centrelink to deny support those who are entitled to it