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Opinion

Please Minister, Focus on Families, All Kinds of Families

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 28th August 2014 - 
 
Australians should be profoundly disappointed that the Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews is lending his strong endorsement to the World Congress of Families Conference
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Six Year Old Detainee Takes Feds to Court

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 26th August 2014 -  A rare class action by a six-year-old asylum seeker has been launched in the Supreme Court against the Federal Government and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison over the treatment…

Opinion

Why Abbott’s Two Million Jobs Promise Isn’t As Good As It Sounds

Lina Caneva, Monday, 25th August 2014 -  Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s election promise of creating two million jobs over a decade is actually promising to do slightly worse than what has happened in the past, writes…

Forrest Indigenous Jobs Review Released

Staff Reporter, Friday, 1st August 2014 -  Philanthropist and businessman Andrew Forrest’s Review of Indigenous Training and Employment Programmes has been released, making 27 “ambitious” recommendations…

G20 Thrown Challenge on Inequality and Sustainable Growth – C20 Summit

Staff Reporter, Monday, 23rd June 2014 -  Global civil society has called on the G20 to tackle endemic corruption, confront the challenges of climate change and urgently address what it describes as the social and economic…

Audit’s an Assault on Low Paid Workers – Opposition

Staff Reporter, Monday, 5th May 2014 -  The Federal Opposition says the National Commission of Audit recommendation to slash the minimum wage is an assault on Australia’s lowest paid workers. As part of its 86 recommendations,…

NDIA Headquarters Opens in Geelong

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 30th April 2014 -  The Prime Minister Tony Abbott has re-confirmed his commitment to the National Disability Insurance Scheme at the the opening of the National Disability Insurance Agency headquarters…

Alarm Unjustified Over Ageing Population – Report

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 29th April 2014 -  The impending retirement of baby boomers that has prompted alarm in policy circles is unjustified, a university report has shown. In the report, The ageing of the Australian population:…

Opinion

It’s About NOT Leaving Anyone Behind

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 22nd April 2014 -  Up until now the Federal welfare review has been  a mystery to the social sector but there’s still a lot that can inform the next stage of the review, writes Anglicare Australia…

Opinion

Welfare Review Needs to Incentivise Sustainable Employment

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 17th April 2014 -  Assistance to get and keep a job should be front and centre of the Government’s review of welfare support for people with disability, writes Disability Employment Australia CEO Craig…

Opinion

Regulation Bonfire Offers Little Warmth for Not for Profit Sector

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 -  To abolish the ACNC on the grounds that it has failed in its first year to unravel the Gordian knot of Australia’s long legacy of regulatory hodgepodge amounts to policy vandalism,…

Repeal Day an Exercise in Deregulation Smoke and Mirrors

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 -  There are some big deceptions behind Tony Abbott and Josh Frydenberg’s Repeal Day initiative, writes John Wanna, Chair of Public Administration at Australian National University,…

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