TODAY: Anti-Poverty Week event with Central Land Council and Single Mother Families Australia to highlight overlooked welfare issues
The Antipoverty Centre is hosting an online event at 3:30pm AEDT today featuring the Central Land Council and…
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.
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
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…
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
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…