The Antipoverty Centre is hosting an online event at 3:30pm AEDT today featuring the Central Land Council and Single Mother…
Consecutive governments have failed people in poverty and shifted the blame to escape responsibility and culpability for harm Anti-Poverty Week,…
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.
The Antipoverty Centre is disturbed by comments from Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek and Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy yesterday…
Members of a government reference group strongly oppose plans to restart some penalties – which have been unlawfully administered – for people on Centrelink payments.
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.
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
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.
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.