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Inequality in Australia 2024:Who is Affected and How April, 2024 Report by ACOSS and UNSW Sydney, for their Poverty & Inequality partnership.See the summary page here.See the full report here. ACOSS (the Australian Council of Social Service) has partnered with UNSW Sydney to undertake a research and impact collaboration to sharpen the national focus on poverty … Continue reading Inequality in…

The Australian Trade Union Institute (ATUI) records a brief history of the activism that led to the winning of the eight hour day. See the original post on their website here. On 21 April in 1856, building workers in Melbourne took strike action and won the eight-hour day as a general industry standard. It was the first … Continue reading The 8…

Our friends in Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) have released their quarterly newsletter: Older Tenants Voice Summer Newsletter 2024. Summer’s edition of Older Tenants Voice is packed with colourful photos from our recent events, call outs for for participation in our CALD projects and federal election campaigns, reports on the Retirement Villages Amendments, … Continue reading Older Tenants…

Heat kills more Australians than any other natural disaster. SURVIVE THE HEAT The Victorian Department of Health produced these posters informing about some key ways to survive heatwaves, which can be downloaded in many community languages at health.vic.gov.au/environmental-health/extreme-heat-community-resources Thanks to Older Tenants Voice (OTV) for this information.

The Australia Institute (TAI) urges all to ‘End the gas industry’s free ride’ as: Around 80% of Australia’s gas is exported overseas. Our research shows the gas corporations have paid ZERO royalties on over half (56%) of all gas exportsIn fact, the government collects more revenue from HECS than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.  Link at:  … Continue reading Did You…

One year on, Labor must end detention of asylum-seekers on Nauru September 7, 2024 Statement by Refugee Action Collective (Vic)See their original post here. In July last year, when the final refugees were removed from Nauru, there was some hope that it would signal the beginning of an end to the abhorrent practice of offshore … Continue reading Labor Must…

Decisions made by parliamentarians about sources of revenue and what to spend money on are political decisions, not economic ones. As Falzon (2017) states: “Inequality is neither a personal choice nor a national tragedy.It is a choice governments make.” – Dr John Falzon To learn more check out  Dr John Falzon, 25 August 2017, ‘Politics is Concentrated … Continue reading Did You…

Demeaning messaging is a powerful tool promoting disdain not only for those falling outside the so-called individual character of competitive individualism but also more generally for all people doing it tough which influences public attitudes about what kind of welfare policies the government should provide, and who should benefit. Mental health issues can and do … Continue reading Got the…

Cover Photo by Jacob (Getty Images) Too many Australians are ‘sick with worry’ as the cost of essential goods and services continue to skyrocket past the Consumer Price Index (CPI) including in: health – medical and hospital services, pharmaceutical products; housing – utilities and other household fuels and rents; and education – high fees.[1] The … Continue reading Going Hungry…

In 2017, David Fagan in examining the digital revolution urged us to wake up to: “the concentration of decision-making and trendsetting in new corporations that have grown quickly from nowhere without any commitment to the social cohesion that goes with mass employment and paying taxes.” You can find his work “Wake Up” here. A Question … Continue reading Digital Disruption