Welfare recipients deliver messages to Amanda Rishworth protesting government refusal to raise Centrelink payments
People on low incomes gathered to share their stories at a protest in Adelaide before delivering messages to…
Unemployed advocates welcome new poverty inquiry, but Centrelink payment increase cannot wait
Welfare recipients cannot pay the price of further delaying action – low payment levels are harming and killing people
Indexation is no increase: Albanese government spin hides entrenched poverty crisis
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.
Minimum wage decision is cold comfort for welfare recipients
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
Antipoverty activists surviving on welfare call on the new prime minister to honour his mother’s memory by increasing…
Antipoverty activists challenge candidates to dismantle the poverty machine on COVID supplement anniversary
50 years on from the Henderson inquiry it must be the first and highest priority of any politician to ensure everyone has enough to live. There is no other moral position.
“Those that need the most get the least”: people in poverty respond to budget
Do-nothing budget ignores poverty crisis masked by low unemployment rate.
National uComms poll finds 73% support for cash payments to unemployed people in budget
Community responds to reports the government will provide a one-off payment to workers
Productivity Commission homelessness report shows urgent need for higher JobSeeker payment
At the height of the Omicron crisis people are at greater risk than ever. There is no excuse for inaction.