ACOSS launches campaign to increase Youth Allowance and Newstart
Contributed by Ben Wilson A week ago, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) launched a campaign to raise the Youth Allowance and called for…
Centrelink
Smoking gun shows that the unemployed and pensioners are not the bludgers
Contributed by Joe Montero The Turnbull government’s war against Centrelink benefit recipients is based on the lie that they are imposing a burden on those…
Centrelink’s robo debt is illegal and unjust
Contributed by Jim Hayes According to Terry Carney, who happens to be Emeritus professor of law at the University of Sydney, the government’s “robo-debt” system…
Maddison has leukemia and Centrelink refuses to help her
Contributed by Jim Hayes A young 17-year old Sydney leukemia sufferer, Maddison Delaney, has found herself among the ranks of those being abused by Centrelink….
The Turnbull government is trying to legislate discrimination in a new form
Contributed by Ugly Malcolm Turnbull and the rest of the gang in Canberra, are mounting yet another attack on Australians. This time it comes in…
Rhianna who has cystic fibrosis and needs a lung transplant denied support by Centrelink
Contributed from Queensland Rhianna Johnson lives in Bundaberg in Queensland and she is one in the long list of sick people denied a disability pension…
Welfare overhaul will increase poverty and unemployment
Contributed from Victoria The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has warned that increasing the punishment of the unemployed, will result in worsening poverty and…
Petition aims to stop Canberra’s Welfare Reform Bill
From the Australian Unemployed Workers Union The Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) is launching a campaign, to convince the cross bench Senators that they…
Centrelink’s Robo-Debt system is still firing at the vulnerable
Contributed by Ben Wilson Anyone who might have thought that Centelink’s Robo-Debt cruelty is over has been mistaken. The government agency has been caught once…
My autistic son will be discriminated against with the cashless welfare card
The following article has been contributed by John Browner. It is related to an article published by The Pen (9 September 2017) and titled It…
