May Federal Budget a Solid Step Up for Vulnerable Australians
10 May 2023 Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) welcomes the social security and cost of living measures in last night’s Federal Budget that will make life a little easier for vulnerable Australians. CSSA also welcomes the additional $4 billion over 4 years for the community services sector to help them meet the cost of inflation and enable...
Politicians, advocates and prominent Australians call for JobSeeker increase in Federal Budget
26 April 2023 Politicians from across the aisle, academics, business leaders, community advocates and other prominent Australians have joined in a rare display of unity to urge the Prime Minister to implement the first priority recommendation of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee and deliver a substantial increase to JobSeeker and related payments in the May Budget. Labor...
Australia’s major faith-based charitable service networks unite to support Voice to Parliament
23 March 2023 Leaders from the six leading faith-based social services charities are urging support of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament to be embedded in the Constitution, as originally proposed in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. In a co-signed open letter to Federal Parliament, The Salvation Army, Anglicare Australia, Baptist Care Australia,...
Nearly 20,000 refugees set to apply for permanent residency
13 February 2023 Catholic Social Services Australia has welcomed today’s announcement that the Albanese Government will provide a permanent visa pathway for existing Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) and Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (SHEV) holders. This is in line with the Government’s 2022 election commitment and will give some 19,000 refugees the right to apply for Australian citizenship...
May Federal Budget looks to address entrenched disadvantage
30 January 2023 Catholic Social Services Australia has welcomed reports the Albanese May Budget will focus on entrenched disadvantage in the most vulnerable Australian communities. In a podcast with the Guardian Australia and a major essay published today in the Monthly magazine Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he is working with the Social Services Minister, Amanda Rishworth, to make...
Albanese Government makes good start for the dispossessed but much more to be done
27 January 2023 Article by Francis Sullivan, as published in Pearls and Irritations In 1996 Paul Keating said, “when you change the Government, you change the country”. Nothing could be truer as the Albanese Government goes about implementing a far reaching, some might say radical agenda, particularly as it relates to many of Australia’s most marginal and disadvantaged. Since the...
