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Cheyanne, a young woman from Ballarat, used FOI to access personal records to demonstrate abuse of rules by employment services
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
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
Continue Reading Experts calling on the government to abandon Schedule 5
New information revealed yesterday by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations in senate estimates hearings suggests upwards of 100,000…
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 employment…
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
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- 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 of 100,000 people may have had their Centrelink payment unlawfully cancelled under the Targeted Compliance Framework – roughly 10 times the number the department has previously admitted to. The Antipoverty Centre and others have sought information from the… - Employment services overhaul set to ignore legal quagmire as Rishworth prepares for NPC addressToday ahead of employment minister Amanda Rishworth’s National Press Club address, reports suggest she is expected to outline “the biggest shake-up of the employment services system in 30 years”. What she is not expected to do is respond to the welfare compliance scandal the (un)employment services system is mired in that led to a Commonwealth Ombudsman investigation of the Targeted Compliance Framework. The…
- 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