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…
Employment services overhaul set to ignore legal quagmire as Rishworth prepares for NPC address
Today ahead of employment minister Amanda Rishworth’s National Press Club address, reports suggest she is expected to outline “the biggest shake-up of…
TONIGHT: Post budget briefing – The most important broken promises (online)
Join Amy Remeikis alongside housing and welfare advocates for post budget analysis of measures affecting people in poverty.
Targeting migrants over “welfare” only exposes how cruel and unequal the rules really are
We stand in solidarity with all racialised people in the face of vicious attacks from Angus Taylor. It is convenient for people in power to use welfare recipients and migrants as scapegoats for problems they have not caused.
The poor and disabled finance Albanese’s “most ambitious” budget
Behind the headlines and spin this budget shows actual broken promises – to the people who are being harmed the most
New analysis reveals more than 1.6 MILLION in energy debt as campaign calls for immediate relief
It's time to cancel energy debt. Energy companies have shown they are unwilling to put struggling customers before profits. They have reaped billions in profits and pushed energy prices higher while hundreds of thousands of people are stuck in debt.
Advocacy groups push for Chalmers to scrap $20b housing tax breaks before budget
Australia is in a housing crisis. Rents are unaffordable. Homelessness is rising. Public housing waitlists stretch decades. And every year, the federal government hands $20 billion in tax breaks to property investors.