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...
13 December 2022 Article by Francis Sullivan, as published in The Daily Telegraph As the Reserve Bank lifts interest rates to their highest levels in a decade, the big losers aren't just homeowners but also the hundreds of thousands of low-income renters who are paying more than half of their earnings just trying to keep a roof over...
7 December 2022 Some 185,000, or nearly a fifth of low-income private renters, are paying more than half of their household income in rent, well above the accepted maximum tolerable measure of 30 per cent, according to a major new report from leading housing services organisation, Launch Housing. Launch Housing’s 2018 - 2022 Homeless Monitor, says this...
28 November 2022 One of Australia's leading social service networks has welcomed Federal Government plans to establish an independent panel to annually review support payments — such as JobSeeker and parenting payments — ahead of each Federal Budget. The new Panel is part of a deal with independent senator David Pocock to support the Government's industrial relations...
24 October 2022 The leaders of major faith-based charities have come together to issue an open letter on planned Stage 3 tax cuts ahead of Tuesday’s Budget: Dear Prime Minister On behalf of Australia’s leading faith-based charitable networks, we are writing to you about the impact and projected cost of the Government's planned tax cuts. Together, our agencies provide...
18 October 2022 The Albanese Government has released a new, 10-year national strategy, designed to end family, domestic, and sexual violence against women and children in one generation has been released today by the Albanese government. The National Plan, which has been agreed to by all states and territories, aims to guarantee all levels of government work...
13 October 2022 Executive Director of Catholic Social Services Australia, Ms Monique Earsman, has called on the Federal Government to increase jobseeker and other payments before stage three tax cuts, which will cost less than the proposed $243 billion, scheduled to take effect from July 2024. Ms Earsman made the call following the release of Anglicare Australia’s...
5 September 2022 More than 4.7 million Australians will see an increase in support payments from 20 September following a 4 per cent increase in the consumer price index in the six months to June. The Minister for Social Services, Amanda Rishworth, said the indexation increase was the largest in more than 30 years for allowances and...
20 June 2022 Article by Francis Sullivan, as published in Eureka Street Despite last week’s decision by the Fair Work Commission to push up the national minimum wage by 5.2 per cent, millions of Australians, in all parts of the country, will continue to live in poverty and on survival wages. The facts are that the Commission’s...
6 June 2022 Member services within the Catholic Social Services Australia network are working overtime as freezing cold weather hits the eastern seaboard and forces homeless people off the streets. “Life on the streets is hard enough at the best of times but when the temperature plummets people sleeping rough need a safe place to sleep, a...
