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Campaign to reverse JobSeeker cut to be launched

4 March 2021 Editor 0

By Joe Montero Pretending to offer a small increase in JobSeeker, the Morrison government is really handing out a massive cut on 29 March. During the lockdown last year, it was universally recognised that $550 […]

Miserable $25 a week JobSeeker rise is really a cut

3 March 2021 Editor 0

By Joe Montero We now know that government ministers have agreed to permanently lift the JobSeeker payment by $50 a fortnight or $25 a week. The increase will extend to Austudy, Abstudy and parenting payments. […]

Older people and disabled have a right to be treated properly

25 January 2021 Editor 0

Contributed The Covid-19 pandemic has showed that much more must be done for those in aged care and with disability needs. They have experienced more than their share of sickness and death.

JobActive agencies are abusing unemployed people and must be stopped

12 November 2020 Editor 0

Contributed Something’s got to be done about the jobActive agencies and their exploitation of the unemployed. An article in The Saturday Paper revealed that $500 million in public money was handed over to them during […]

Scott Morison announces JobSeeker payments are to be slashed

12 November 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero It was officially announced yesterday by Scott Morrison. Unemployed Australians will have $100 per fortnight taken form their JobSeeker supplement by December.

The government’s new generosity toward those out of work is a hoax

27 July 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero Praise over the Morrison government’s generosity with JobSeeker and JobKeeker is misplaced and premature.

Morrison government refuses to promise not to keep on pressuring robodebt victims and stop chasing those targeted

27 July 2020 Editor 0

By Ugly Scott Morrison’s government can no longer hide behind the Robodebt system. It blew up in its face. Now there is no choice but to scrap it under its current form. It is technically […]

Big movement for economic and social justice is taking off

27 July 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero The new fast-growing national movement to hit Australia, Living Incomes For Everyone, was launched on Tuesday 21 July.Thousands watch online during the event or after. It is on Facebook and has been […]

We need to consign the term ‘dole’ and its nasty derivatives to pre-Covid history

7 July 2020 Editor 0

Cassandra Goldie, the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) wrote the following opinion piece (The Guardian 2 July 2020), about the need to champion a new way of looking at […]

Government promotes the bullying of people on JobSeeker payments

19 May 2020 Editor 0

By Ugly The private operators in the Job Network program and nowadays called Jobactive providers, have been showing just what a caring lot they are, by bullying those who come to them after losing their […]

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Campaign to reverse JobSeeker cut to be launched

Miserable $25 a week JobSeeker rise is really a cut

Older people and disabled have a right to be treated properly

JobActive agencies are abusing unemployed people and must be stopped

Scott Morison announces JobSeeker payments are to be slashed

The government’s new generosity toward those out of work is a hoax

Morrison government refuses to promise not to keep on pressuring robodebt victims and stop chasing those targeted

Big movement for economic and social justice is taking off

We need to consign the term ‘dole’ and its nasty derivatives to pre-Covid history

Government promotes the bullying of people on JobSeeker payments