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Indexation is no increase: Albanese government spin hides entrenched poverty crisis

September 5, 2022

Welfare recipients will be no better off despite claims that indexation is an “increase” to Centrelink payments. Government boasts of “increase” to Centrelink payments harms welfare recipients and perpetuates the same myths as Morrison.

MEDIA ALERT: Unemployed workers to hold “mini employment summit” on parliament lawns today

September 2, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

Event organised by unemployed advocates will go ahead despite being denied approval

Welfare recipients respond to Jobs and Skills summit

September 2, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

Unemployed, disabled and low income people are the real experts in what we need

Unemployed advocates hold “mini jobs summit” at Parliament House

September 2, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

Event organised by unemployed advocates will go ahead despite being denied approval

Robodebt royal commission rings hollow as Labor creates another debt collection “human tragedy”

August 25, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

Robodebt royal commission is a distraction from the government ramping up "debt" collection against welfare recipients in July. They must immediately cease raising and pursuing Centrelink debts.

Rishworth, don’t repeat past mistakes in disability employment with “reforms” that pander to providers

August 9, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

Hallmarks of past failures evident in Disability Employment Services Consultation Report. What disabled people need is less rhetoric and more control, not another disaster like the Workforce Australia rollout.

Unemployed workers call for Workforce Australia penalty suspension as rollout shambles see fears realised

July 4, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

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

June 15, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

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

May 23, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

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

May 9, 2022

Antipoverty Centre

Update

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.