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Welfare

June 2024

  • Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne

    Inequality reporting
    Australian job providers under investigation for demanding payslips from jobseekers

  • An Origin power bill

    Origin Energy wrongly took $2.5m from nearly 3,000 ex-customers via Centrepay

May 2024

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Raising jobseeker is not ‘fiscally sustainable’? Sorry, but that is flat out wrong

    Greg Jericho
  • Aerial image of beach and waterfront properties in Sydney, Australia

    Inequality reporting
    Disposable income soared for richest Australians after pandemic began but went backwards for the rest, report says

  • No increase to base jobseeker rate means payments remain below poverty line

    The Crunch
    No increase to base jobseeker rate in budget means Centrelink payment remains below poverty line

  • Centrelink signage at the Prahran office

    Inequality reporting
    Centrelink mutual obligations: budget changes tipped to prevent 1m jobseeker suspensions a year

  • Grogonomics
    Australia budget 2024: the six graphs you need to see

    Greg Jericho

  • From gen Z to boomers: what the 2024 budget means for your generation

  • Federal budget 2024: $300 energy rebates, cheaper medicines and rent relief in Jim Chalmers’ cost-of-living budget

  • Inflation could fall below 3% by end of 2024, budget figures show – not next year as RBA has forecast

  • Centrepay scandal: energy firm Origin wrongly received funds from welfare payments of former customers

  • ‘We’ve waited long enough’: Victorian government to pay $276m for those abused in state care

  • Jim Chalmers flags cost of living help for job seekers in federal budget

  • An ‘avalanche of demand’: Australians’ need for charity rises just as donations drop

April 2024

  • An AGL power bill

    AGL’s use of Centrepay not audited for two years despite allegations it wrongly took $700,000 from vulnerable Australians

  • Illustration of hands reaching for money

    Inequality reporting
    Payslip wars: Australian jobseekers suffer harassment in ‘a crazy system that doesn’t work for anyone’

  • People queuing outside a Centrelink office

    Poverty experts tell Labor jobseeker payments should be lifted to 90% of age pension

  • Nathan Stafford holds a whipper snipper in an overgrown garden

    ‘I’m just a lawnmower man, I’m no one special’: Nathan Stafford, the Sydney gardener with a following of millions

  • Landlords charging Centrepay transaction fees to vulnerable tenants against scheme policy

  • One big chart
    As 190,000 households wait for social housing, application numbers are only increasing

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