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. […]
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The Greens party leader, Adam Bandt, says the word Beetalo is going to enter common parlance in a similar way to Adani. “Imagine if I said there was a way that ‘carbon capture and storage’ actually worked and was economically feasible,” Bandt posed in the July edition of the Greens […]
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The South Australian State Government is attempting to delete not only the words conservation and biodiversity from its Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act but the concepts. According to a Change.org petition started by Outback Advocates to David Basham SA Minister for Primary Industry and Regional Development over two thirds […]
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As Senate Estimates recently scrutinised the latest in a succession of election campaign rorts – this time cash for carparks – the Centre for Public Integrity (CPI) has highlighted fundemantal flaws in the Morrison Government’s exposure Bill for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission (CIC). In fact, according to the CPI, the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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A new report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) shows that cash assistance policies significantly reduced the number of people who might otherwise have fallen into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report – ‘Mitigating Poverty’ – offers new data on how social assistance spending prevented people from […]
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Central Coast Council has found the funds to complete the first ever survey for Koalas across the region. As Ecologically Endangered Communities (EECs) such as Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland on the Woy Woy Peninsula and various EECs in COSS land and wetlands are subject to risks that the Central Coast […]
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Federal Government emergency assistance for the Greater Sydney lockdown is not available to those already receiving Centrelink payments including Youth Allowance and that can make it impossible to cover your rent, let alone food and other essentials. By Jackie Pearson Take the example of a student who is living away […]
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The Australian Marine Conservation Society has issued a call to action against heavyweight plastic bags sneaking their way back into shops and takeaway outlets. “In bad news for ocean wildlife, many big retailers have been handing out thick plastic bags – circumventing bans on lightweight plastic bags in every state […]
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