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The #Budget24 included encouraging updates to support migrants & refugees in Aus including a $120.9M investment in the settlement sector. The budget also saw missed opportunities, like the humanitarian intake remaining static at 20,000 places. Read more: tinyurl.com/Budget24SSI

🧵kristin (she/her) from Antipoverty Centre, pleasantly surprised peter khalil from AUWU, Jennifer Kirkaldy from Salvos Australia, Ben Phillips, and our CEO Cassandra Goldie🌈 were featured in this piece for ABC News about the government's failure to #raisetherate abc.net.au/listen/program…

🧵The 10% increase to Rent Assistance in the #budget2024 builds on last year's rise, but will not be enough to lift people on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance out of deep housing stress, because the base rates of payments are simply too low. #raisetherate theage.com.au/property/news/…

Executive Director of @Anglicare_aust Kasy Chambers said: “Just two weeks ago, our Rental Affordability Snapshot found that a person on JobSeeker could only afford 3 rentals out of 45,000 listings... This increase [to rent assistance] adds just 3 additional rentals...”

"With both the state and federal budgets failing to properly address the gap in funding, nor provide funding security for future years, it is essential that both governments address this hole…before even more people fall into it." - Chelsea McKinney, CLWA abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

Powerful analysis of how the Budget is failing those who need the most support in our economy by ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie🌈

Great opportunity to engage with Treasurer Jim Chalmers MP on the impact of his Budget - at ACOSS Post Budget Event this Friday 24 May -

Now more than ever we stand with our #FirstNations people to progress #treaty making; #truthtelling; understanding our history; education, and tackling racism. We need connection. We need respect. We need action. And we need change.#NRW2024

Read about new #AntiPovertyWeek Director and how we will 'act to end poverty' in 2024; #Budget24 response from the Community Sector; Peoples Commission on the #HousingCrisis and latest on #EndChildPoverty campaign - May eNews #RaistheRate #EverybodysHome mailchi.mp/antipovertywee…

Latest eNews - State Budgets in NSW, Qld, SA and Vic on #costofliving and #housing pressures, with state COSS reviews; Anglicare Australia new Cost of Living Index; charities unite in Canberra on advocacy and climate action this week... antipovertyweek.org.au/newsletters/

Are you currently involved in the child support scheme, or have you been in the past? Please complete this 30-minute confidential survey to help improve the scheme - 2024 Child Support Survey swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eb…

“The most effective form of rental control is social housing - an affordable option backed by government that pushes costs down for everyone” - Per Capita’s Emma Dawson at the People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis

According to these researchers 126,000 children are ‘locked out’ of childcare due to the activity test but when introduced in 2018 numbers did not change theaustralian.com.au/commentary/ear…

Billions of dollars in back-to-back surpluses are cold comfort for people struggling to survive on the $55 a day JobSeeker Payment. To support people most in need to cover basic costs, the Federal Government must #RaisetheRate afr.com/politics/feder…

Worrying signs about rising poverty and younger generation less able to escape it in new Productivity Commission economic mobility report abc.net.au/news/2024-07-1… via ABC Australia

Link to the latest reports impacting people on the lowest incomes in #antipovertyweek monthly e-news - Productivity Commission income mobility; ACOSS home energy retrofits Guardian Australia SBS VICELAND diabled children in police watch-houses mailchi.mp/antipovertywee…

We must do more to end #youthhomelessness - Federal and State/Territory govts must implement the recommendations in Mission Australia #youthsurvey report

Read the report - implement the recommendations to end #youthhomelessness - #auspol

Victorian government abandons promise to raise criminal age to 14 amid youth justice reforms abc.net.au/news/2024-08-1… #RaiseTheAge #YouthJustice

Are you holding an event to #endchildpoverty #raisetherate or for a #fairhousingfuture from 13-19 October - submit it to the Anti-Poverty Week calendar antipovertyweek.org.au/submit-an-acti…