Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,who’s always telling us how hard he and his pensioner mother did it,has a moral imperative to ease the burden of the jobless.
If Labor continues to assert it will always seek to help the most vulnerable,then at some point it must do so,or come up with a different description of itself.
Eleven years after Julia Gillard wound the cut-off age for the youngest child for the single parent payment from 16 to eight,the government is planning to raise it.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is trying to find ways to cut spending,but not meeting the demands of economic inclusion and women’s equality bodies may prove a political problem.
This will not be a budget that pours money into income support. The goal is to spend on government services,not in direct payments.
The government has received two substantial reports aimed at helping the poor and women. But they will have to fit into one already under pressure.
There is a curious and cruel paradox that anyone who has experienced poverty knows – the less money you have,the more everything costs. It’s sometimes called “Boots Theory”.
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The persistence of the unjust robo-debt scheme across five long years underlines that the rule of law arrives too late or not at all for many everyday Australians.
A deep dive into the statistics around domestic violence revealed the shocking reality about the consequences for women deciding whether to leave violent relationships.
She’s a creative,a reader and a mainstream worker,supported for her Down Syndrome. She wants to tell those about to lose their jobs that they can find new friends.