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The National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN) provides free and independent information, advice and representation about Social Security law and its administration. NWRN member organisations operate in all states and territories of Australia and consist of specialist community legal centres and services and individual advocates. They are independent of Centrelink and all government departments.  [Read more]


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Challenges ahead for improved Centrelink service delivery

"Proposals to co-locate key services, such as Centrelink and Medicare, promise more convenience and access and have been welcomed by Welfare Rights." [Read more]


Little to celebrate in Indigenous communities as NTER welfare quarantining wound back

"There's little cause for celebration in today's announcement that the blanket approach to the quarantining of welfare payments in the Northern Territory (NT)  communities as part of the NTER is to be wound back", said Kate Beaumont, President of the National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN).  [Read more]


Plan to control spending of poor is “draconian, disempowering and down-right dangerous”, says National Welfare Rights Network

“Reports in all of the major papers that the Federal Government has plans for a massive expansion of conditions for receiving Centrelink payments, with half of all payments to be only available via a Basics Card type scheme that operates in the Northern Territory (NT) has been branded “disempowering and down-right dangerous”, said Kate Beaumont, President of the National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN) today. “These measures are draconian, paternalistic and extreme.[Read more]

 

9.11. 2009

Centrelink errors found in 1 in 2 cases

More than 1 in 2 Centrelink decisions were changed because the agency got its facts wrong or did not understand the legislation underpinning entitlements worth $66.3 billion, said the Director Maree O’Halloran, Welfare Rights Centre, today.  9 November 2009  [Read more]

19.11. 2009

Submission to ‘Better Dealings with Government: Innovation in Payments and Information Services’ Discussion Paper for Industry Consultation by the National Welfare Rights Network. [Read more]
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