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My Uncensored Experience Of The DES System
“So, here is my uncensored experience of the DES (Disability Employment Services) system. I am in this stream, because I have chronic, incurable pain in my hip, due to having developed Perthes disease as a child. Perthes disease is rare,…
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RALLY: Fix Our Housing Emergency (March 19, 2023)
RALLY: Fix Our Housing Emergency Sunday March 19, 11:30am Parliament, North Terrace We face an emergency!! Never has it been harder to find an affordable place to live. Never have rents increased as rapidly. Never has there been such a…
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Every Week Should Be Anti-Poverty Week
It’s the start of Anti-Poverty Week. (Though for many of us, every week’s Anti-Poverty Week.) At the risk of sounding like a broken record (a risk I’m willing to take), here’s my periodic reminder that: 1. There’s nothing inevitable or…
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Release Of ‘Broke, Cold, Stressed’ Renters Report (September 27, 2022)
Today, Anti-Poverty Network SA released ‘Broke, Cold, Stressed’, our report outlining the results of our survey of 288 low-income renters, which took place over the winter of 2022. The results are yet another reminder that our rental market is causing…
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“Mutual Obligation”: Useless At Best, Harmful At Worst
In news that will surprise almost none of you, virtually all job-seekers regard the hoops they have to jump through and keep jumping through, to receive their $49-a-day pittance, as bloody useless, when it comes to finding work, according to…
Anti-Poverty Network SA 