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Welfare

July 2024

  • Jillian Segal

    Australia news live
    Greens and academics criticise appointment of antisemitism envoy – as it happened

  • A cashless welfare card

    Abolished cashless debit card still divides, two years after Labor ordered its demise

June 2024

  • Unrecognisable young mother holding baby son in her arms

    1 July changes: tax cuts, Centrelink indexation and everything else coming for 2024-25

  • A gas burner on a stove

    Shadow energy minister says system in ‘dire trouble’ – as it happened

  • Gail Furness

    Watchdog to examine corruption commission’s robodebt decision after complaints of alleged ‘corrupt conduct’

  • A person in a supermarket aisle

    Inequality reporting
    Average jobseeker has $135 weekly shortfall on basic costs, report finds

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Robodebt knackers the Nacc! In this country, justice is only for the powerful

  • IT expert wins long-running freedom of information court battle over robodebt documents

  • ‘Ineffective’ NSW child protection system failing tens of thousands of children, auditor general finds

  • Robodebt: national corruption watchdog’s decision not to investigate officials angers victims and whistleblowers

  • AGL thought it was doing welfare recipients a ‘favour’ when refunding money it wrongly collected, court hears

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

  • 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

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