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…
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.
Review of the Social Security Legislation Amendment – Income Management and Enhanced Income Management 2026
Review of the Social Security Legislation Amendment - Income Management and Enhanced Income Management 2026 People do not…
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.
Welfare not war: Albanese must prioritise support for people struggling with high living costs
The Antipoverty Centre is urging the Albanese government to withdraw material support and diplomatic cover for the US and Israel’s imperial wars and to instead prioritise investment in welfare, education, healthcare and other essential supports that benefit the public.
Albanese: Put your money where your mouth is for poor people in second term
It’s time for Labor to end the shameful welfare policies that leave millions in poverty and despair
This isn’t “compassion” – Albanese embarrasses himself on JobSeeker comments
Albanese has accused a journalist of verballing him, saying he “deserves respect”, when they asked what it would take for a Labor government to increase JobSeeker and if his advice to unemployed people is to “just get a job”.
Labor’s mental health plan adds insult to injury for people in poverty
Labor’s mental health funding announcement today ignores the expertise of people in poverty who been telling governments and self-interested charities for years what we desperately need to improve our mental ill health and reduce suicidality: Enough money to live.
Irresponsible budget offers no relief to millions of people in poverty
Albanese government fails its own test to "leave no one behind" in fourth budget