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30-Dec-11 | New Year heralds good and bad news for low income Australians |
21-Oct-11 | Life is no picnic on just $243 a week:poll reveals poverty and despair on Newstart |
21-Oct-11 | New Poll shows rate of Newstart Allowance for unemployed people is too low |
07-Oct-11 | Tax Forum offers opportunity to restore balance and fairness to the welfare system |
02-Sep-11 | 1 million Australians slide deeper into poverty as benefits rise 85 cents a day |
11-Jul-11 | Warm reception for carbon price compensation plan |
11-May-11 | A mixed welfare budget creates winners and losers |
05-May-11 | Young mums need support, not a ‘crackdown’ |
18-Apr-11 | Centrelink penalties surge 100% and Indigenous job seekers hardest hit |
14-Apr-11 | Warm reception for carbon price compensation plan |
14-Apr-11 | Clean Energy Package should be passed with ongoing monitoring of assistance |
14-Apr-11 | Disability Support Pension changes untested, unfair and unacceptable |
04-Apr-11 | Mr Abbott's - welfare reform is deficient and divisive |
16-Mar-11 | Ombudsman exposes Centrelink’s broken review process |
07-Feb-11 | Majority of Australians want the Government to curb government payments to high income earners |
07-Feb-11 | Fact sheet: Sole parents and pensions |
07-Feb-11 | Flood levy supported, but fears for welfare and service cuts |
03-Feb-11 | Relocation policy for flood jobs good news but must be handled with care |
05-Jan-11 | New poll paints bleak picture for jobless |
31-Dec-10 | New Year heralds good news and bad news for Australians on social security |
16-Dec-10 | New poll urges action on tax loopholes for the wealthy |
14-Dec-10 | Government, Coalition and Greens unite to condemn unfair social security debt rules |
03-Dec-10 | Quality of Centrelink decisions under attack as review tribunal cuts costs |
17-Aug-10 | Coalition jobs policy: lack of skills the problem, not motivation |
11-Aug-10 | Is Labor real about modernising welfare? |
10-Aug-10 | Parties must address real issues with welfare, rents and unfair Centrelink rules |
05-Aug-10 | Coalition jobs plan for older people positive but “assets test” trap will deny assistance to many |
03-Aug-10 | Both major parties are wrong on welfare quarantining |
02-Aug-10 | $150 a fortnight boost to family payments welcome |
10-May-10 | No frills Budget should not leave unemployed on the shelf |
21-Apr-10 | Ban on income support will not solve the youth jobs crisis |
01-Apr-10 | Pensioners treated like April fools as bank profits hit $10.4 billion |
11-Mar-10 | A house of review? Welfare Rights anger at failure of the Senate |
11-Mar-10 | No justification for “income management” roll out, says Welfare Rights |
05-Mar-10 | Letter to Senator Claire Moore |
25-Feb-10 | Senate inquiry told income management rules “unmanageable” |
23-Feb-10 | Hardship provisions not so super – unfair rules cause hardship |
10-Feb-10 | Weekly Centrelink payments on the money |
09-Feb-10 | Government funding for independent information about Social Security hits the spot |
09-Feb-10 | Government funding for independent information |
08-Feb-10 | Time to end the uncertainty for students |
17-Dec-09 | Challenges ahead for improved Centrelink service delivery |
25-Nov-09 | Little to celebrate in Indigenous communities as NTER welfare quarantining wound back |
22-Nov-09 | Plan to control spending of poor is “draconian, disempowering and down-right dangerous”, says NWRN |
09-Nov-09 | Centrelink errors found in 1 in 2 cases |
01-Nov-09 | NT intervention shows claims for some Centrelink payments up 30% |
15-Oct-09 | Words not enough to createsocial inclusion in Anti-Poverty Week |
14-Oct-09 | Bar on access to employment assistance perverse and counterproductive, says Welfare Rights |
11-Oct-09 | Surveillance of welfare recipients may undermine payment reforms, says Welfare Rights |
28-Sep-09 | States’ grab for pension increase is heartless |
20-Sep-09 | Pensioner joy but welfare shock as difference between pensions and allowances tops $108 a week |
12-Sep-09 | New independent help when dealing with Centrelink and Social Security problems launched by Federal Minister |
09-Sep-09 | Doc noEight week Centrelink penalties fall by 12,000; homelessness averted for some |
09-Sep-09 | Eight week Centrelink penalties fall by 12,000; homelessness averted for some |
14-May-09 | Welfare challenge to backbenchers-live on $227 a week |
13-May-09 | Government delivers historic increase for pensioners but where is the “fair go” for parents and the unemployed? |
11-May-09 | The most vulnerable need protection in Budget of tough choices urges National Welfare Rights Network |
01-May-09 | Youth compact could save a generation, but handle with care |
11-Apr-09 | Single parents seek refuge as pension anxiety starts to bite |
12-Mar-09 | Single parents neglected by Pension Review |
24-Feb-09 | National Welfare Rights Network welcomes help for unemployed people |
13-Feb-09 | Government and Greens deal to help newly unemployed |
21-Jan-09 | Government study reveals Centrelink penalties leads to homelessness |
18-Nov-08 | Tough Rudd welfare changes to leave parents with children and mentally ill out in the cold |
12-Sep-08 | New independent help when dealing with Centrelink and Social Security problems launched by Federal Minister |
23-Sep-05 | New "welfare to work" measures slug savings and claw back Government benefits |
11-Sep-05 | Newstart Allowance Waiting Periods Background Paper |
21-Aug-05 | "Welfare to work" package still fundamentally flawed |
11-Aug-05 | Parents of children with disabilities "hidden victims" of "welfare to work" plans |
28-Jul-05 | Cameos demonstrating the financial impact of the abolition of PPS for parents once youngest child turns 6 |
28-Jul-05 | New flaws in welfare reform plans found -families to lose up to $68 pw. |
01-Jul-05 | How the Newstart Allowance waiting periods strip savings and claw back Government benefits after 1 July 2006 |
13-May-05 | Older and younger students sidelined by "welfare to work" changes, Senate inquiry into student income support told |
13-May-05 | Submission to Senate Select Committee on Mental Health |
11-May-05 | Budget of wrong choices gives people on welfare few choices |
05-May-05 | Flaws in the current approach to suspension of Disability Support Pension |
05-May-05 | Experts discover major hole in Govt's disability plans |
29-Apr-05 | More punishment for disadvantaged job seekers not the answerlogo |
31-Mar-05 | Centrelink wrong on de-facto relationships |
07-Sep-04 | ALP family package strikes at Social Security debt traps |
26-Jul-04 | More than window dressing needed to address Centrelink debt traps |
14-May-03 | Wrong priorities again - response to the Commonwealth Budget |
27-Mar-03 | Social Security penalty reductions unblock welfare reform package |
24-Mar-03 | New data reveals Social Security penalties cost unemployed people $1 billion |
11-Nov-02 | New report reveals 1.2 million to be at risk from tough Centrelink penalties in "welfare reform" legislation |
20-Oct-02 | NSW Government joins Centrelink in double punishment |
16-Oct-02 | Call for urgent action to address massive youth debt |
11-Mar-02 | Breaches and Penalties in the Social Security System |