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.
Behind the headlines and spin this budget shows actual broken promises – to the people who are being harmed the most
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.
To mark the ten years since Josh’s death, Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union members will be gathering at Minister for Skills…
People in poverty cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment
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