Funding for participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme was cut by 4 per cent in 2021 with the average spend falling from $71,200 in 2020 to $68,500 in 2021. … Read More
Despite Australia’s jobless rate falling to a new 13-year low last month, cost of living increases continue to place enormous pressure on low income and disadvantaged families. Ms Monique Earsman, … Read More
The Federal Government’s planned $2 billion health funding boost to fight a looming winter omicron infection wave and the first serious flu season in three years must focus on disability, … Read More
Just under 3 million Australians, including nearly 750,000 children, are living in poverty according to a major new report from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre. According to the report, released … Read More
A major survey of nearly 2,500 disability support workers has found almost one third (31%) of respondents want to leave the sector within the next 12 months. The survey, by … Read More
As tensions increase in Ukraine, Australians are bracing themselves for record petrol prices that will impact low-income earners and welfare recipients the hardest, according to the Chair of Catholic Social … Read More
The company behind Australia’s offshore processing regime on Nauru made a staggering $101 million profit last financial year – more than $500,000 for each of the fewer than 200 people … Read More
As Australia faces the reality of Omicron ripping through our communities with devastating consequences for both public health and the economy, we need the Federal Government to provide free and … Read More
One of Australia’s peak social services groups, Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA), has supported calls for rooftop solar panels to be installed on Australia’s public housing stock. A joint report … Read More
Francis Sullivan, Chair of Catholic Social Services Australia, said today, economic pressures being faced by low income and disadvantaged Australians are at an all-time high and are being force-fed by … Read More