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MEDIA ALERT: Community groups to call for government action on unsafe temperatures in social housing
Poor people are paying the price with their health and bills after a record breaking summer
Mar 25
February 2024
Welfare recipients despair over poverty inquiry failure
"No one left behind" rings more hollow with each passing day under the Albanese government
Feb 28
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The Antipoverty Centre
January 2024
Labor’s cost of living crisis talks must produce Centrelink payment increase say unemployed advocates
A performative political response will not fool people in poverty
Jan 22
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The Antipoverty Centre
December 2023
TONIGHT: About us not for us – What the Workforce Australia inquiry means for welfare recipients
The Antipoverty Centre and the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union will host an online public meeting about the disappointing Workforce Australia…
Dec 12, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
November 2023
Burke must immediately pause Centrelink payment suspensions following Workforce Australia inquiry report
Government inquiry admits deeply flawed system – millions of suspension notices were issued in the year of the inquiry
Nov 30, 2023
Burke must protect welfare recipients affected by WA fires
70,000 people on Centrelink payments in WA are being subjected to unsafe heat and bushfire risk under threat of payment cuts
Nov 24, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
Not fit-for-purpose: Shorten must immediately suspend “debt" collection activity
More stress, more physical and psychological harm and more suicides is the inevitable result of pursuing welfare recipients for so-called debts they…
Nov 13, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
October 2023
Rishworth’s economic “inclusion” committee bill insulting to people in poverty
Advice and policies that affect those on the lowest incomes must be led by us, but we are again excluded. The minister cannot expect to be taken…
Oct 19, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
August 2023
SURVEY: 93% of welfare recipients say “mutual” obligations harm mental and physical health
$4 billion-a-year privatised employment services system does not find people work
Aug 15, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
July 2023
Government must support lifting how much welfare recipients can earn before payment cuts
People on JobSeeker currently lose up to 79 cents in the dollar from paid work
Jul 31, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
June 2023
Labor betrays welfare recipients on cashless welfare in reversal of election promise
New compulsory income control bill passes despite Linda Burney’s promise that income control would be voluntary and that compulsion is not Labor’s…
Jun 22, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
May 2023
Budget shows politicians can’t be trusted with the lives of welfare recipients
The Labor Party leaves millions behind, it's time to take the power to set rates out of the hands of politicians.
May 9, 2023
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The Antipoverty Centre
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