Daniel had a huge victory after fighting for fully backpay after his Centrelink payment was unlawfully stopped due to MOs. His tenacity shouldn’t be needed to get justice, but he’s shown what’s possible. Thanks theRustler for your leadership & Cait Kelly for reporting.

Want to know how messed up the system is? Because it was such a large amount of back pay they had to pay it in instalments. Daniel was fearful if he went to the media they’d stop paying the back pay so cait waited until he got his last instalment before publishing it.

You’d never know it but rents have gone up less than inflation in Australia (and incomes) last 6 years (as they did in the 6 before that.

The report, released for the start of Anti-Poverty week, found 3.7 million people, or 14.2 per cent of the population, were living in poverty in the years 2022-23. That includes 757,000, or one in six, children. Cassandra Goldie🌈 ACOSS Earth911 Rtr

People say financial stress most single parents (43%), renters (37%) & people with had a serious personal injury or illness in the past year (31%). Those in disadvantaged areas & people in severe psychological stress were more likely to be financially stressed. Cassandra Goldie🌈

Soaring number of Aussies living in poverty, study reveals in Australia. ACOSS Cassandra Goldie🌈

Tomorrow is last day Australian Human Rights Commission 4 National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds We are grateful for her consistent & powerful advocacy for #children. Her call to govts to urgently take action to keep kids #safe, #listen to them & review #legislation with them in mind. 🙏

Today we learned of a shocking, sneaky amendment to the government's income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions. We are joining with advocates to call on Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments without proper judicial process.

it's not a "serious offence" if it only harms several thousand welfare recipients tho is it

Report on defective social security. EJA briefed on 44,000 debts over-repayed, some by up to $20,000. A error within SA not following final step in manual to terminate deductions. Issue of debt over-repayment, one in a series of misadministrations, of Government. Economic Justice Australia

String of scandals hit Centrelink as many had payments illegally cancelled, with several reviews not working legally & gov plans to undertake at least remediation processes for separate issues: robodebt class action, income apportionment & overpaid debts. ACOSS Antipoverty Centre

Research Fellow Dr Nayana Prakash (Chatham House International Security) discusses the ‘Gen Z protests’ that have taken place across the Global South in 2025 ⤵️

Blame billionaires not migrants Green Left 1441 out now Read it here greenleft.org.au/issue/1441

Centrelink issues suspension to jobseekers & on disability pensions at rate of more than 5 a minute, new data suggests, over the legality of the troubled system. Antipoverty Centre shows 2,683,605 suspension actions in June 2024 & July 2025. Antipoverty Centre Cassandra Goldie🌈

This has been quickly rammed through by Labor & deserves more coverage. The government is amending legislation to allow them to cancel welfare payments of people who are merely ACCUSED of a crime. Deeply authoritarian & absolutely insane to administer live.thepoint.com.au/2025/10/the-po

Over the weekend media reported on the most recent issue (of many) to do with misadministration and unlawfulness within the social security system: 44K Centrelink debts that have been over-repayed: Economic Justice Australia ACOSS Antipoverty Centre

Amy Remeikis It’s one rule for them and an entirely different set for the rest of us .. Morrison and his mates walked away with gold handshakes from robodebt.