Media Statements

Oct 15

New Anti-Poverty Week Factsheet Calls For State And Federal Governments To Urgently Act

Aug 19

If Not Now, When? This Week’s The Time To End Taxpayer Handouts For Property Investors

Aug 06

Citizens Rally Outside Housing Minister’s Office For Homelessness Week

Jun 06

We Needed A Public Housing Budget, Not A ‘Law And Order’ Budget

May 21

Interest Rate Cut Must Translate To Relief For Renters

May 5

Labor Should Use Decisive Win To Take Bold, Decisive Action On Poverty + Housing

Apr 17

Horrendous, Disappointing, with No Real Solutions

Mar 25

“Groundhog Day For The Poor”
Another Nothing-Budget!

Mar 19

Candidates To Be Quizzed By Low-Income People At Spence Forum

Feb 26

‘Purple Pingers’ Helps Launch Anti-Poverty Network Election Campaign

Feb 18

Fast Track Housing Trust Maintenance Recommendations!

Jan 31

Latest Rent Rise Data Another Reminder Why We Need Rent Controls

Dec 5

Australia’s Largest Disability Jobs Service Providers Fail to Meet Quality Standards

Oct 16

We Spend So Much Time Just Surviving

Sep 20

A Dollar A Day Won’t Keep Poverty Away

Sep 10

New Polling On Housing Crisis Shows It’s Time For Urgent Action

Aug 5

Where Is The Action, Premier? In A Housing Emergency, 500 Public Homes Is Not Enough!!

Jul 16

Housing Trust Issues Are Bigger Than An Individual

Jul 8

A Week After Homeless Death Housing Trust Moves To Evict Disabled Woman

May 14

2024 Federal Budget – Widening The Gap Once More Between Rich And Poor

Apr 19

JobSeekers, Supporters, Visit Amanda Rishworth’s Office To Call For Action On JobSeeker Rate

Apr 16

National JobSeeker Week Of Action Targets Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth

Apr 2

‘Why Fat Profits Over Full Bellies?’ Anti-Poverty Network SA Addresses Parliamentary Inquiry On Grocery Proces

Mar 20

‘Not Even Enough For A Packet Of Pasta’ – 97-Cents-A-Day JobSeeker Raise Will Leave People Behind In Deep Poverty

Feb 29

Inquiry Failure Leaves People In Poverty In Despair

Dec 14

Eviction Is Offensive

Dec 6

‘Housing Is A Human Right’ National Day Of Action: Freeze Rents And Build More Public Housing

Nov 28

Banning No-Cause Evictions Is A Big Step Forward For Renters, But Urgent Work Still Needed On Unlimited Rent Rises

Nov 16

Low-Income People Across Country Gather For Community Conference On Poverty And Housing In Northern Suburbs

Nov 14

Low-Income Renters Tell Parliamentary Forum: We Face An Affordability Emergency, We Need To Freeze Rents

Nov 8

‘I’m Scared Of My Next Rent Increase’: A Snapshot Of 301 Renters Highlights Ongoing Emergency

Nov 2

So-Called Significant Reforms For Renters, Is Not Enough

Oct 20

“Stop Talking, Start Listening”: Low-Income Northern Suburbs Resident Challenges MPs To See Reality Of Poverty

Sep 20

Let Them Eat Beans!! Miserly $2.86-Per-Day JobSeeker Raise Makes Labor The Party Of Hopelessness And Homelessness

Aug 23

As Yet Another Opinion Polls Shows Community Support For Rent Controls, It Is Time For Governments To Act

Aug 11

Homelessness Week Rally Outside Empty CBD Social Housing

Aug 9

An Insulting Raise That Will Keep JobSeeker Hundreds Of Dollars Per Week Below The Poverty-Line

Aug 3

An Insulting Raise That Will Keep JobSeeker Hundreds Of Dollars Per Week Below The Poverty-Line

Aug 1

Reserve Bank Rates Hold, As Rents Keep Increasing At Record Levels

Jul 27

Latest CPI Data Reveals Highest Rent Increases In 35 Years – Time For Governments To Freeze Rents

Jul 16

Banning No-Cause Evictions Big Step Forward For Renters, But Urgent Work Still Needed On Unlimited Rent Rises

Jul 9

RoboDebt: Sympton Of A Cultural Illness

Jun 19

‘No New Taxes’ Pledge Means Fighting Cost-Of-Living Crisis With One Hand Behind Your Back

May 31

Public Support For Rent-Freeze Grows, Time For Government To Act

May 19

SA JobSeekers Rally For Real Raise, Not Crumbs

May 15

SA JobSeekers Respond To Labor’s Heartless Federal Budget

May 9

We Demanded Bread, We Received Crumbs: Federal Labor’s Pathetic Budget Betrays People In Poverty

May 1

Government Must Not Discriminate on JobSeeker, Leave Over 600,000 People In The Cold

Apr 18

Government Decision To Not Raise JobSeeker will Devastate People Already Drowning

Apr 10

More Struggle Street Disasters, With Buy Now, Pay Later

Mar 17

Rally: It’s Time To Fix The Housing Emergency

Oct 25

A Heartbreaking Federal Budget For People on JobSeeker, Low-Income Renters

Aug 29

100 Days Of Inaction On Cost of Living Crisis By Albo

Aug 3

SA Government Refuse To Include Renting Voices In Renting Review Forum

Aug 1

People Who Have Been Homeless, Low-Income Tenants, Gather to Demand Urgent Action on Housing Emergency

Mar 29

People In Poverty Under Enormous Strain – This Budget Offers Them Only Crumbs

Dec 9, 2021

Rally Outside Liberal Party HQ Calls For Massive Expansion of Public Housing, Not Fake Solutions to Housing Crisis

July 20, 2021

Back To Struggle Street: Survey Highlights Widespread Suffering After Latest JobSeeker Cuts

May 11, 2021

Federal Budget Another Wasted Opportunity To Tackle Poverty, Women’s Safety

Feb 23, 2021

Cruel, Insulting: The Government’s JobSeeker Cut Traps Millions of People Into Deep Poverty

Nov 5, 2020

Northern Suburbs Mayors Come Together To Campaign Against JobSeeker Cuts