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The Australian Council of Social Service welcomed the new $200 per week disaster payment for people in lockdown on social security payments who lost at least eight hours of paid work but expressed alarm that the Federal Government had again abandoned those with the very least – those who had […]

Angela Fredericks from the HometoBilo campaign is calling on as many people as possible to join an online event being held by the Tamil Refugee Council today, Saturday, July 31. Tamil Refugee Council (TRC) is an Australia based grassroots Tamil organisation advocating for the rights of Tamil refugees in Australia, […]

How is a young university student stuck in Sydney’s lockdown expected to live on $231.25 a week? By Jackie Pearson That’s the full Youth Allowance for over-18s living away from home in Australia right now if your parents earnings are low enough for you to be entitled to receive it. […]

Federal Assistant Treasurer, Michael Sukkar, is expected to introduce a proposal to amend Governance Standard 3 of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Regulations 2013, to parliament on August 3. Charities have described these proposed Morrison Government changes as “alarming” and having the capability to “silence every one of the […]

How will you acknowledge World Humanitarian Day? As 12 million Australians grumble about which vaccine to get and not being able to go to the gym, it’s worth remembering there are humanitarian crises right now in 54 countries and another nine have to catapulted into humanitarian need because of the […]