What can the under-privileged hope for in the Budget … not much?
28 March 2022 Article by Francis Sullivan, as published in Pearls and Irritations In a civilized country, where we pride ourselves on...
Latest NDIS quarterly report show average spending per participant down by 4 per cent
21 March 2022 Funding for participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme was cut by 4 per cent in 2021 with...
Low income and disadvantaged families being left behind as cost of living surges
18 March 2022 Despite Australia’s jobless rate falling to a new 13-year low last month, cost of living increases continue to...
The chilling of charity
16 March 2022 Article by Marilyn Rodrigues, as published in The Catholic Weekly A number of Catholic charities are bracing for the...
$2 billion Federal omicron and flu health boost must focus on underprivileged
11 March 2022 The Federal Government’s planned $2 billion health funding boost to fight a looming winter omicron infection wave and...
Three million Australians, including nearly 750,000 children, living in poverty
10 March 2022 Just under 3 million Australians, including nearly 750,000 children, are living in poverty according to a major new...
One in three disability workers want to leave the sector because of low wages and poor conditions
7 March 2022 A major survey of nearly 2,500 disability support workers has found almost one third (31%) of respondents want...
Petrol price hikes and cost of living increases to hit low income earners hardest
25 February 2022 As tensions increase in Ukraine, Australians are bracing themselves for record petrol prices that will impact low-income earners...
Nauru offshore detention company making $500,000 profit a year for each detainee
16 February 2022 The company behind Australia’s offshore processing regime on Nauru made a staggering $101 million profit last financial year...
Joint statement on the need for free and accessible rapid antigen tests to protect public health and the economic recovery
14 February 2022 As Australia faces the reality of Omicron ripping through our communities with devastating consequences for both public health...
