Morrison brings tax hikes for most and a new war against the unemployed
Contributed by Jim Hayes Modelling provided by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre has revealed that millions of Australians will be left worse off by the…
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Centrelink call centre workers have been sacked as new contract is handed to Serco
Contributed from Victoria At a time when one would think it a priority to meet the needs of people out of work, the Morrison government…
Cashless welfare card to be forced on more people
Contributed by Adam Carlton The Indue card or Cashless Welfare card seems remote to most Australians, who have tended to see this as a problem…
Slashing JobSeeker payment will impose a human cost
Contributed by Ugly According to a Deloitte Access Economics analysis, the cutting of JobSeeker payments will hit the economy by $31.3 billion, and this will…
LIFE launches a week of action to defend vulnerable Australians
Contributed by Joe Montero Australia’s new social movement Living incomes For Everyone, also known by its acronym – LIFE, is launching its response this week…
The slow dismantling of Australia’s COVID-19 security net
Amid the confusion, and sometimes misinformation, over the future of JobKeeper and JobSeeker, Lauren Kelly (Jacobin) provides some much needed clarity. Both were introduced as…
The government’s new generosity toward those out of work is a hoax
Contributed by Joe Montero Praise over the Morrison government’s generosity with JobSeeker and JobKeeker is misplaced and premature. Enough has been said to reveal the…
Thousands on JobSeeker contact their MPs in National Day of Action to Raise the Rate for Good
Contributed by Raise The Rate For Good Across the country, people on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance are contacting their local members of Parliament to tell…
Morrison government refuses to promise not to keep on pressuring robodebt victims and stop chasing those targeted
Contributed by Ugly Scott Morrison’s government can no longer hide behind the Robodebt system. It blew up in its face. Now there is no choice…
We need to consign the term ‘dole’ and its nasty derivatives to pre-Covid history
Cassandra Goldie, the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) wrote the following opinion piece (The Guardian 2 July 2020), about…
