Centrelink attacks JobKeeper payments and support for a Universal Basic Income rises
Contributed by Ben Wilson The contrast between Centrelink’s move to ordering some of those out of work to pay back $32 million in JobKeeper payments…
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Video: Cashless Welfare Debit Cards: Lived experience and other facts and stats
The LIFE campaign held its first online tutorial on 6 June. It concerned the Cashless Welfare Card, what it’s doing to people put on it…
Government fights to keep secret Robo Debt documents
The government is fighting hard to prevent the disclosure of documents that stand to expose the political nature of the Robo Debt program. Allegations that…
A new attack on the unemployed is on the way and there is good reason to oppose it
Contributed by Adam Carlton The federal government is trying to rush a bill though parliament, imposing measures to make it even harder to get unemployment…
Plot to justify cut in NDIS help exposed
Contributed by Ben Wilson Disability groups are angry about changes that threaten to make help from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) even harder to…
JobSeeker and JobKeeper end today to open the door to neoliberalism on a new level
Contributed by Joe Montero The JobSeeker payment supplement has come to an end. Longer term unemployed, those now out of a job because of Covid-19,…
More Australians to be forced onto the Cashless Debit Card
Contributed by Adam Carlton The Social Services Minister has declared she wants to return to “business as usual” after ending a temporary pause on new…
Video: It’s not a choice for most people to be on welfare
It’s bloody tough. I know, because I’ve been there. Four years ago, I stood in the Senate and spoke about my experience living on welfare,…
Video: How people are getting rich from your unemployment
For the hundred of thousands of unemployed people in Australia, joblessness means living in poverty. But for the people who are supposed to help us…
Big business rorted JobKeeper and others are expected to go without enough to live on
Contributed by Jim Hayes The proof is there. Ever since the introduction of JobKeeper last year, there had been allegations that the system was being…
