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Welfare

February 2024

  • Barbara Abraham's hands hold a photo of her son George

    Out in the cold
    ‘Like a knife through the heart’: two years after his desperate death, George Abraham was asked if he still needed housing

  • John and Maureen Ellis in their home on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula

    ‘A long time coming’: Victoria’s apology to care leavers offers hope for a reckoning

  • statue

    Anglicare Sydney refused to assess Aboriginal baby’s aunt as carer because she was in same-sex relationship, court hears

  • Woman pushes empty shopping trolley in supermarket aisle.

    Inequality reporting
    No way to ‘budget’ out of cost-of-living crisis for low-income earners, report finds

January 2024

  • David Pocock in the Senate

    Pocock wants to boost Centrelink payments using savings from stage-three tax cuts overhaul

  • Centrelink signage in Melbourne

    Inequality reporting
    Jobseeker endured 11 weeks without Centrelink payments but was still forced to attend job agency appointments

  • Tony Burke

    Inequality reporting
    Renewed calls for Labor to ditch work for the dole scheme as major charity walks away

  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    Australia news live
    Data shows ‘collapse’ in full-time roles – as it happened

  • Centrelink staff claim toilet breaks are being timed by management in crackdown

  • Inequality reporting
    More than half of those applying for domestic violence payment are rejected, data shows

  • Labor could raise welfare payments for cost-of-living relief without stoking inflation, economists say

December 2023

  • Cleaner sits on floor next to mop

    Inequality reporting
    Jobseekers say Australia’s employment system forcing them into jobs with ‘terrible hours, conditions and pay’

  • Australian solider seen from side on with shoulder patch and flag

    Australia’s veterans department ‘apologises for any distress’ in chasing alleged pension overpayments

  • Eve's husband was sent a letter by Centrelink notifying him of an overpayment after 'her death'. She was very much alive.

    ‘You are deceased’: Services Australia bungle results in woman losing bank accounts and pension

  • The Australian Taxation Office at Lang Street in Sydney

    Tax ombudsman criticises ATO’s robotax for not considering ‘financial vulnerability’ of recipients

  • Labor accused of being more concerned with NDIS costs than people with disabilities

  • ‘We all got a big shock’: 100-year-old Australian war veteran’s family furious at $11,000 pension debt letter

  • Jasper hits north Queensland with Cairns urged ‘take shelter now’ – as it happened

  • Australian government spent $52m more on welfare calculator after finding a more effective alternative

  • Anthony Albanese’s 2023 reading list: what should be on the PM’s bookshelf this summer?

    Tony Wood and Natasha Bradshaw, Grattan Institute
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