WHAT WOULD RAISING NEWSTART BY $100 PER WEEK MEAN FOR YOU?
“When I was on Newstart $100 more a week would have meant we could afford asthma medication instead of just using meditation (true story) when we had an attack...this is me and the kids. It might have meant I could get clothes suitable for a job interview. It might have meant buying pens and paper and exercise books for school instead of begging off people. So yeah, a few things would have been better. $100 more for some of my friends now would mean eating every meal. Yep, it is that bad now for some people. It would not just mean healthier food, it would mean food once a day or more. It would mean enough petrol to be able to drive where they need to go too.” - Amy.
Anti-Poverty Network SA shared Sally McManus's post.
One of the lessons I take from the UK election is that young people have had enough. Enough of the system that has stolen their future. The same is true in Australia. Trickledown economics and neo-liberalism has wrecked their jobs, their job security, free education and any hope of home ownership. And there is devastating climate change. It has ushered in the age of the billionaire class where a small number of people have too much power. The backlash will come for sure.
****JOB AGENCY FIGHT-BACK DAY - SATURDAY JUNE 17TH****
GUEST SPEAKER: Owen Bennett, president of Australian Unemployed Workers' Union
Does your job agency mistreat you? Penalise you for no good reason? Never take your health and personal issues seriously? Waste your time? Then this event is for you.
Come along to learn about your rights, how to defend them and help others defend them, and how we can struggle for justice and respect for the unemployed. Bring your stories, questions, and ideas.
Job agencies make big money off the government - $1.7 billion per year - not to help unemployed people, but to punish them.
Enough Is Enough!!
Job Agency Fight-Back Day
June 17, 2017, 1:00pm - June 17, 2017, 5:00pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Owen Bennett, president of Australian Unemployed Workers' Union Does your job agency mistreat you? Penalise you for no good reason? Never take your health and personal issues seriously? Waste your time? Then this event is for you. Come along to learn about your rights, how to defend them and help others defend them, and how we can struggle for justice and respect for the unemployed. Bring your stories, questions, and ideas. Job agencies make big money off the government - $1.7 billion per year - not to help unemployed people, but to punish them. Enough Is Enough!! Hosted by ANTI-POVERTY NETWORK SA: an alliance of job-seekers, sole parents, Disability and Age Pensioners, carers, students, and others fighting for the rights of welfare recipients and other low-income people. INFO: P: 0411 587 663 E: antipovertynetwork.sa@gmail.com FB (public page): facebook.com/antipovertynetworksa FB (organising group): facebook.com/groups/antipovertynetworksa W: antipovertynetworksa.org
"These measures are another iteration of the government's ideological obsession with attacking and demonising people who are excluded from the labour market. Their crime is the crime of being poor. By blaming them and scapegoating them, the government is merely justifying further cuts to social security and social expenditure on the one hand, and preparing the ground for the further lowering of wages and conditions in the labour market on the other." - Dr. John Falzon from St. Vincent de Paul, who we look forward to hearing speak at our Anti-Poverty Week conference this October.
Hope versus humiliation in the Federal Budget - Eureka Street
eurekastreet.com.au
It would be nice to believe, as the Treasurer wants us to, that better times are around the corner. But while wages stagnate and company profits surge, inequality is at its highest since the 1950s. This is not going to get any better any time soon. By 2019, the highest income earners will have recei...
****Job Agency Fight-Back Day - Saturday June 17th****
"People assume that those on Centrelink spend their money on rubbish!! That however is not true. I have 4 children and a house that I rent for $350 a week (the rent has been raised three times since I have been living there). I would love to move but who has the money to do that?
I do a budget every week to make sure I can pay my bills and still have enough so my kids can do school things that may come up, not to mention paying school fees. My kids do not get tuck shop because I simply cannot afford it, they do not get brand name food for school food, their school uniforms I look for online. Everything I buy is put on lay buy. I go out to dinner maybe once every 6 months, I do not drink unless it's X-mas day and I do not smoke I don't gamble either.
I have voluntarily joined a job network who seems to not be interested in helping me to obtain work at all. I'm there for all of 5 minutes and they send me off. I have applied for countless jobs and I have maybe had one call back for a job I didn’t get. I'm currently studying online in the hope it helps me get work before I'm put on Newstart. I struggle as it is to get by and if I was put on Newstart I actually wouldn't be able to afford the house I live in. The thing is that while some people may be abusing the system, most of us are not." - LINDA
Some more media coverage of our open letter to the federal government on how our harsh welfare system harms the health of recipients, with Kate Kameniar from the SA branch of the Public Health Association of Australia - PHAA.
It is natural that a system that provides inadequate levels of income support, with complex and stressful obligations attached to those meagre payments, is going to negatively affect the health of recipients.
Letter to Federal Government highlights impacts of welfare system
radioadelaide.org.au
An alliance of community and health organisations from across Australia have released an open letter to the Federal Government, highlighting the health impacts of the welfare system and the need fo…
Everyone needs to watch this. We need to be more educated about economics, to challenge the bs thrown at us by politicians and other elites.
The Economic Myths of UK's 2017 General Election Exposed
"The General Election is exposing once again the ignorance there is around the production of money and how easy it is for governments to finance expenditure,...
****FUNDRAISING DRIVE****
We have some major projects in the second half of 2017, including our two-day Anti-Poverty Week conference, one of the largest Anti-Poverty Week events in the country; and our 15km Trek for Jobs, Justice, and Dignity, from Port Adelaide to Adelaide.
Can you help us out? :-)
TO DONATE: antipovertynetworksa.org/about/donate/.
ATTACK POVERTY, NOT THE POOR - 2017 ANTI-POVERTY WEEK CONFERENCE
WHEN: Friday October 20, 10:00am-4:30pm
Saturday October 21, 11:30am-6pm
WHERE: Clayton Wesley Uniting Church, corner Portrush Road and Parade, Beulah Park
COST: Low-Income: Optional donation per day
Community Workers: $25-50 for one day, $35-$70 for two days
Others: $10 for one day, $15 for two days
FACEBOOK: Tinyurl.com/
EVENTBRITE (To Book Tickets): Tinyurl.com/yd9xhxdb
Join us for two days of conversation, stories, and learning how to get active. We will be discussing the punishing, harmful policies making life tougher for those out of work, and living in poverty, and how we can struggle together for justice and respect. We will focus on the voices of welfare recipients, whose views and experiences have been ignored for too long.
Featuring Dr. John Falzon from St. Vincent de Paul, plus speakers from Auckland Action Against Poverty, Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, Australian United Sole Parents Network, and more!!
TRANSPORT ASSISTANCE and CHILDCARE available.
E: antipovertynetwork.sa@gmail.com Ph: 0411 587 663
W: antipovertynetworksa.org/conference Fb: facebook.com/antipovertynetworksa facebook.com/groups/antipovertynetworksa
Attack Poverty, Not The Poor - Anti-Poverty Week Conference
October 20, 2017, 10:00am - October 21, 2017, 6:00pm
ATTACK POVERTY, NOT THE POOR - 2017 ANTI-POVERTY WEEK CONFERENCE WHEN: Friday October 20, 10:00am-4:30pm Saturday October 21, 11:30am-6pm WHERE: Clayton Wesley Uniting Church, corner Portrush Road and Parade, Beulah Park COST: Low-Income: Optional donation per day Community Workers: $25-50 for one day, $35-$70 for two days Others: $10 for one day, $15 for two days FACEBOOK: Tinyurl.com/ EVENTBRITE (To Book Tickets): Tinyurl.com/yd9xhxdb Join us for two days of conversation, stories, and learning how to get active. We will be discussing the punishing, harmful policies making life tougher for those out of work, and living in poverty, and how we can struggle together for justice and respect. We will focus on the voices of welfare recipients, whose views and experiences have been ignored for too long. Featuring Dr. John Falzon from St. Vincent de Paul, plus speakers from Auckland Action Against Poverty, Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, Australian United Sole Parents Network, and more!! TRANSPORT ASSISTANCE and CHILDCARE available. E: antipovertynetwork.sa@gmail.com Ph: 0411 587 663 W: antipovertynetworksa.org/conference Fb: facebook.com/antipovertynetworksa facebook.com/groups/antipovertynetworksa