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Weighing up the Welfare Card - The AIM Network
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By Kathryn Wilkes For anyone who has always been a law-abiding citizen, who was a very hard worker for many years and who has slogged it out “alone” to raise a teenage daughter, the welfare debit card feels like the lowest insult to their sense of personhood and belonging within our lovely country.…
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Power To The Poor - Silent No More!! (Anti-Poverty Week Conference)
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POWER TO THE POOR - SILENT NO MORE!! (Anti-Poverty Week Conference)Join us for two days of conversation, stories, and learning about ways to get active, at the only Anti-Poverty Week event organised by poor people!! We will be exploring the punishing, humiliating policies making life tougher for tho...
"The poorest and most vulnerable people in our society suffer the most from the effects of climate change and extreme weather events.
The disadvantaged are more exposed to severe weather conditions through homelessness and poor quality housing structures, and bear increasing food and fuel costs, often from very meagre incomes, i.e, Newstart Allowance. How can we protect our most vulnerable members of society from these effects?
Come along to Anti-Poverty Network SA's How Climate Change Will Hurt Australia's Poor, part of Power To The Poor - Silent No More (Anti-Poverty Week Conference), on Friday October 21st." - Inga Baker.
How Climate Change Will Hurt Australia's Poor
October 21, 2016, 3:00pm - October 21, 2016, 4:30pm
This forum, part of Power To The Poor - Silent No More (Anti-Poverty Week Conference), will explore the impacts of change change on Australia's poor, including the unemployed, pensioners, sole parents, the homeless, and others on low incomes. Speakers will include Dr. Scott Hanson-Easy and Dr. Danielle Every, from the Vulnerable Communities Network of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. These impacts, including major health issues, more severe weather, rising energy costs, and others effects, will make life even harder for those already living in poverty, and out of work. So what can we do? What does climate change mean for our fight for a more egalitarian, just society? INFO: E: antipovertynetwork.sa@gmail.com P: 0411 587 663 W: antipovertynetworksa.org/conference Hosted by ANTI-POVERTY NETWORK SA and WOMEN IN POVERTY, and supported by UNITING COMMUNITIES.
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What a legend (the 16-year-old carer, that is, not Christian Porter).
Q&A;: 16-year-old carer on $8 a day confronts government minister | The New Daily
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Social Services Minister Christian Porter told the Q&A audience that "self-reliance" is the government's most vital welfare goal, before he was stopped
From Senator Lee Rhiannon s wall.
www.theage.com.au/victoria/we-have-to-be-treated-like-humans-courts-landmark-ruling-on-rental-rig...
'We have to be treated like humans': Court's landmark ruling on rental rights
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Tenants have the right to a rented home in 'good repair' even when it is first rented out in poor condition.
Written by Cassandra Goldie, CEO of the Australian Council of Social Services (Acoss).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/03/unemployed-people-need-money-to-live-on-thats-a-fac...
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Christian Porter accused Acoss of lacking imagination in calling for an increase to Newstart. But his plan ignores the fact that the current rate is an impediment to employment and ignores the reality of people’s lives
Seeing that it is Labour Day
"October 7 – this Friday – is set to go down as one of the industry's darkest days yet.
Ford, Australia's oldest car maker, will shut both its plants in Melbourne and Geelong, putting 630 employees out of well-paid jobs and triggering thousands more redundancies in the national supply chain.
Simultaneously, in Adelaide, Holden ends production of the Cruze model at its Elizabeth plant, a move which has forced about 270 employees out of work....
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says most ex-auto workers typically had six months of unemployment, before moving into casualised employment, on vastly less pay and often irregular hours, "lowering the standard of living for working-class Australians".
Steve Dargavel, the union's state secretary, says political leaders have drastically failed to grasp the economic and social value of local manufacturing, and had effectively abandoned the industry.
"All advanced economies with automotive industries have actively supported them, because it's in their interest," he says.
"Australia has provided the least amount of support to their automotive industry compared to any other country ... and we also have the most open market for imports compared to any other country."
Dargavel says high-quality, working-class jobs that meant non-university graduates could secure a decent life and raise a family are crucial to national economic wellbeing."
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Road to ruin: Auto manufacturing workers fear for their futures
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By this time next week hundreds of Ford workers will be out of a job.
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An article from the US, Relevant because Australian conservatives, Unfortunately are often inspired by American policy and politics.
www.vox.com/first-person/2016/9/29/12941348/homeless-over-50-statistic
A third of the homeless people in America are over 50. I’m one of them.
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I never thought I’d be spending my retirement years sleeping in my car.