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Governments across Australia must urgently redouble their efforts to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequality, the Close the Gap campaign says, following the release of disappointing new data on the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. This week’s release of the first annual data report by the Productivity Commission […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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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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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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 Central Coast’s Iris Foundation has distributed some helpful tips for mental wellbeing during the current COVID spike in Greater Sydney. “The return of lockdowns has also meant an uptick in uncertainty and anxiety for many, especially young people,” the Foundation suggests. “It’s healthy and important to acknowledge the disappointment […]
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The lockdown support package announced on July 13 by the Federal and NSW governments excludes people on the lowest incomes: people receiving JobSeeker, Youth Allowance and other payments even though so many are locked out of trying to find paid work in lockdown, according to the Australian Council of Social […]
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