Welfare
Cashless welfare system trial begins in Ceduna
The trial of a cashless welfare card in the remote South Australian town of Ceduna outraged locals yesterday, who say......
Governments cut back on social housing as waiting list grows
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data show nearly half of all people looking to get into social housing......
Finland’s radical new approach to social welfare
Every single person in Finland will get eight hundred euros a month if the country’s new radical welfare scheme gets......
National Day of Action against Healthy Welfare card
The trials of the new card in Ceduna, SA, and the Federal government’s expansion of it have created concerns within......
Cashless Welfare Cards, will they be a credit to Ceduna?
Concerns are again being voiced over the federal government’s cashless welfare card, this time in the remote South Australian town......
‘Softer’ welfare cuts still hurt the poorest
The government today introduced amendments to its legislation to cut welfare payments. In 2014 it announced that parents would lose......
Australia’s under-privileged speak out against poverty
Stand Up Speak Out – a two day conference was held over Friday and Saturday night in Adelaide where anti-poverty......
Human rights problems on the horizon for cashless welfare card
The so-called “cashless welfare card” will be trialled in the small South Australian town of Ceduna in February next year.......
A New Stolen Generation
The number of Aboriginal Child Removals is double that of the Stolen Generation. Professor Fiona Arney from the University of......
Work For the Dole a dead end
The Work For the Dole program has been expanded under the coalition government. Anyone under 50 on the dole for......