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