Refugee Action Collectives have launched an聽open letter asking the Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil to help refugees stranded in Indonesia.聽
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Anti-poverty activists and聽welfare recipients called on Social Services minister Amanda Rishworth聽to raise welfare payments聽on the International Day for Eradicating Poverty. Isaac Nellist reports.
Thousands of students are forced into poverty to pursue their degrees, according to a damning report by the National Union of Students. Tyrus Maxwell reports.
A new report has found that聽鈥渙verwhelming numbers鈥 are 鈥渟truggling with high rents and large rent increases, with profound impacts for their health鈥. Isaac Nellist reports.
The Antipoverty Centre and the Australian Unemployed Workers鈥 Union have criticised the federal government for ignoring聽unemployed people and welfare recipients at the summit.聽Isaac Nellist reports
Anti-poverty campaigners are calling on Anthony Albanese鈥檚 Labor government to scrap the controversial new Workforce Australia program, reports聽Isaac Nellist.
About 330,000 people聽will be pushed into poverty when the coronavirus supplement is cut again on January 1, writes Peter Boyle.
Without a joint effort to stop the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global poor, the state of world poverty is looking grim, writes Astrid Paulsson.
Lee Wengraf鈥檚 Extracting Profit shows in great detail that Africa is poor, not because of any innate inability of Africans to raise themselves up, but because Africa鈥檚 poverty is necessary for corporate profit, writes Alan Broughton.
Here鈥檚 a novel idea: Instead of politicians voting themselves another pay rise, how about we give them a pay cut? A real pay cut. We ask them to do what a couple of million Australians are expected to do, week in and week out.
We're all familiar with the old maxim: 鈥渢he rich get richer while the poor get poorer鈥. It is said as often with resignation as it is as a call to action.
Left unquantified it remains abstract but it is much easier to get worked up when the sheer scale of material inequality is in front of your face. Hence the growing outcry surrounding Oxfam's recent annual reports on global inequality that clearly demonstrate the concentration of world resources in the hands of the 0.1%.
As economists debate whether this year will be economically better or worse for Australia, one thing is certain: we will all get screwed even more this year.
Last week, issued its survey of 27 leading economists from financial institutions, academia and consultancies.
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