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Join Amy Remeikis alongside housing and welfare advocates for post budget analysis of measures affecting people in poverty.
Continue Reading TONIGHT: Post budget briefing – The most important broken promises (online)
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.
Behind the headlines and spin this budget shows actual broken promises – to the people who are being harmed the most
Continue Reading The poor and disabled finance Albanese’s “most ambitious” budget
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.
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.
Continue Reading Advocacy groups push for Chalmers to scrap $20b housing tax breaks before budget
To mark the ten years since Josh’s death, Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union members will be gathering at Minister for Skills…
Continue Reading RALLY FOR JOSH PARK-FING: 10 years since Work for the Dole site death
People in poverty cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment
Continue Reading Fuel crisis means Rishworth must urgently stop penalties for welfare recipients
As the government celebrates its generosity, the cold reality is that what lands in our bank accounts is a pittance that leaves us further behind
Continue Reading Welfare recipients struggle to stomach pitiful indexation “increase” as prices soar
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- 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 areWe 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” budgetBehind 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. - 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 for Skills and training, Andrew Giles’, office in Thomastown today 17 April at 1pm This week marks 10 years since the death of 18-year-old Josh Park-Fing who died in a forced labour program in Toowoomba on 19 April 2016.… - Fuel crisis means Rishworth must urgently stop penalties for welfare recipientsPeople in poverty cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment
- Welfare recipients struggle to stomach pitiful indexation “increase” as prices soar
As the government celebrates its generosity, the cold reality is that what lands in our bank accounts is a pittance that leaves us further behind
