Pages tagged "Welfare"
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Submission on the adequacy of Newstart and related payments
Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · October 15, 2019 4:57 PMDownload this submission:
Submission to the Inquiry into the Adequacy of Newstart and related payments and alternative mechanisms to determine the level of income support payments in Australia (PDF, 200 KB, 13 September 2019)
See all the submissions on the inquiry website.
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Scott Morrison's financial advice: stop being poor
Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · May 29, 2017 8:00 AMThese points were presented at the Science Party's Budget Reply meeting on 25th May in Sydney.
In amongst some sensible measures, the 2017–2018 Federal Budget contained predictable attacks on the poor, most evident in the announcements made about welfare (and consider for a moment how "welfare" has been twisted from a descriptor of a person's wellbeing into a label for a financial cost that we're supposed to resent).
This blog post examines the government's drug testing plan for welfare recipients and its cashless welfare schemes, and shares what the Science Party would do differently.
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