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An Open Letter From A Low-Income Advocacte
“Dear community: I am writing this open letter to shed light on the immense challenges faced by individuals and families who are unemployed and living on a low income. It is crucial that we recognise and address the hardships they…
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Anti-Poverty Network SA Statement On RoboDebt
RoboDebt: Symptom Of A Cultural IllnessWe Need To Tackle The Culture Of Welfare-Bashing That RoboDebt Came From In light of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission into RoboDebt, Anti-Poverty Network SA would like to comment on how…
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The Long Road To RoboDebt
“The road to Robodebt was long and winding. The roots of Robodebt are deep and pervasive. The market privileging ideology that drives robodebt goes all the way back to the establishment of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1949 and the…
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RoboDebt Is Gone…But Not The Nasty Culture It Came From…
RoboDebt is gone. And we hope, for the sake of those who experienced its cruelty, not all of whom surivived, that justice is served on the politicians and bureaucrats responsible for incalculable misery. But the mean ideology that RoboDebt came…
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Is It Time To Bin The CEO-Sleepout?
Written by Sam Shetler. “Would you cosplay being disabled to raise funds for a disability charity? No, you wouldn’t. People once thought this was fine but no longer. The #CEOSleepout should go in the dust bin of history as well.…
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Welfare Rights Info Session + Community Lunch
Tuesday July 25, 11:30am-2pmHackham West Community Centre, corner Majorca Road and Warsaw CrescentFacebook event hereRegister here This info session is for people on Centrelink payments to learn more about interacting with Centrelink. Representatives from Uniting Communities Law Centre and Disability…
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New Prime Minister, Old Script
By Pas Forgione. Despite a Prime Minister who – as he constantly reminds us – grew up in public housing, raised by a single mother, struggling to survive on a disability pension, the new Federal Government has stuck with the…
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Q&A With Karly, A Job-Seeker
What have your experiences been like with job agencies? My experiences with job agencies have not been that different from one another. there have been consultants that I’ve liked but then they end up leaving or I get swapped to…