From the Unemployed Workers Union (Melbourne) On Friday the 2nd of March, the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union will be hosting its Public Action Forum Against the Welfare Crackdown at Victorian Trades Hall (Cnr Lygon and Victoria Street) […]
From Jane Norman (ABC News) Around 60 per cent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) are getting rejected, because of a crackdown that started under the Gillard government.
Paul Farrell Senior Reporter at Buzzfeed Australia (19 February 2018) reports that United Nations rapporteurs are seriously concerned about the impact of the Turnbull government’s new security law, and its effect on freedom of the press.
From Queensland Rhianna Johnson lives in Bundaberg in Queensland and she is one in the long list of sick people denied a disability pension by Centrelink. They say she is not sick enough.
As a group of community organisations we say NO to the sell-offs and NO to a program that will see public tenants forced to move from their homes and unlikely to return. Please support us […]
By Joe Montero In many ways, the controversy over Barnaby Joyce’s affair is a distraction. The focus on the personal affair with a former journalist, who became a staffer in the media has the flavour […]
By Human Rights Watch (7 February 2018) People with disabilities in prisons across Australia are at serious risk of sexual and physical violence, and are disproportionately held in solitary confinement for 22 hours a day, Human Rights Watch said in a […]
By Christopher Knaus (The Guardian 14 Feb 2018) Only about $84m in Centrelink debts have been recovered in 14 months, far below the $350m identified by the automated system.
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