ACOSS in the News | 2012

December

• Business lobby slams Swan’s economic nous – Jessica Marszalek, The Daily Telegraph, Dec 21, 2012
• The great Australian nightmare – Travis Gilbert, Homelessness Australia, The Drum, Dec 21, 2012
• Aid cash for asylum-seekers a nonsense: Fraser – Joe Kelly, The Australian, Dec 20, 2012
• 230,000 seek help as housing affordability bites – Rachel Browne, Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 18, 2012
• Every night, 19,000 need shelter – Stuart Rintoul, The Australian, Dec 18, 2012
• The poor get poorer while the rest get the handouts – Suzy Freeman-Greene, National Times, Dec 15, 2012
• Joint call for new unemployment measures (radio) – SBS World News, Dec 4, 2012
• Business, welfare groups and unions will convene their own jobs summit before Christmas – Phillip Hudson, Herald Sun, Dec 4 , 2012
• Move to place pressure on Gillard government regarding a new social welfare system – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Dec 4, 2012
• Business and unions unite in jobs drive – Joanna Mather, Australian Financial Review, Dec 4, 2012
• We should dole out more money for the unemployed – Ged Kearney, The Punch, Dec 4, 2012

November

• ‘Compelling’ case for Newstart boost – Peter Martin, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 30, 2012
• Panel split as Labor pair seek dole rise – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Nov 30, 2012
• Push to increase ‘inadequate’ dole rejected – ABC PM, Thursday Nov 29, 2012
• No dole increase: Newstart inquiry – AAP, Herald Sun, Nov 29, 2012
• People on the dole are ‘too poor to look for work’ – Tory Shepherd, news.com.au Nov 29, 2012
• Newstart (video) – The Project, Channel Ten, Nov 29, 2012
• Political will needed on dole raise – Lisa Martin, AAP, Wed Nov 28, 2012
• NewStart Senate report – ABC Radio National Breakfast, Nov 29, 2012
• Push for rise after dole surge – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Nov 29, 2012
• Single parents – Channel Ten News at 5, Nov 27, 2012
• Hard-up mothers told to try charities – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Nov 27, 2012
• Centrelink clients unhappy, as services pushed to call centres (radio) – Simon Lauder, The World Today, ABC, Nov 22, 2012
• ACOSS calls for wider review of system – Australian Financial Review, Nov 21, 2012
• PM, Abbott slam door on GST changes – Fleur Anderson, Katie Walsh and Greg Earl, Australian Financial Review, Nov 21, 2012
• 1 in 8 Australians living in poverty – Shae Courtney, Right Now, Nov 20, 2012
• Disparate groups join forces for common good – Laura Tingle, Australian Financial Review, Nov 20, 2012
• More than just the job – rise in single mothers in full-time work – Clay Lucas, Craig Butt, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 17, 2012
• More single mothers seek full-time work – Clay Lucas, Craig Butt, The Age, Nov 17, 2012
• Community Sector Must Address Issue of Climate Change – Jackie Hanafie, Pro Bono News, Nov 16, 2012
• Council seeks consensus on the big questions – Lenore Taylor, Canberra Times, Nov 16, 2012
• Kim Carr gives ground on dole push for single mums – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Nov 15, 2012
• Should the dole be increased? (television) – A Current Affair, Nov 14, 2012
• ACOSS: the widening gap between housing costs and social security is behind climbing homelessness (audio) – ABC Newsradio, Nov 12, 2012

October

• Cuts to single parent help after concession limit lowered – Sue Dunlevy, Herald Sun, Oct 28, 2012
• Homelessness does not always look like this – Toby Hall, The Punch, Oct 26, 2012
• Foes unite in call for welfare overhaul – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Oct 26, 2012
• Stop grumbling about tax, we all benefit along the way – Ross Gittins, The Age, Oct 24, 2012
• Gap between the dole and pension too great – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Oct 23, 2012
• Welfare Groups welcome Shorten’s support on Newstart payment reform – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Oct 23
• ‘Mean, nasty’ cut an attack on poor and bigger families – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian, Oct 23, 2012
• We’re awash with benefits, yet so many still go without -Mungo MacCallum, The Drum, Oct 23, 2012
• Tessa Boyd-Caine on The Political Spot – Australian Christian Lobby, Oct 23, 2012
• Shorten slammed over low Newstart – Pia Akerman, The Australian, Oct 22, 2012
• Jobless payment too low, says Bill Shorten – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian,  Oct 22, 2012
• Being Poor in a Rich City – ABC Radio National Life Matters, Oct 19, 2012
• What life looks like for 2.2 million Australians below the poverty line – Chris Paine news.com.au Herald Sun, Oct 18, 2012
• One in six Australian childen ‘living in poverty’ – Bangkok Post, Oct 17, 2012
• I went from designer clothes to a homeless hostel – Julie Powell SMH, Oct 18, 2012
• Cuts overload Centrelink – Patricia Karvelas The Australian, Oct 19, 2012
• 96 put on basics cards in trial sites – AAP The Australian, Oct 18, 2012
• What do we expect of welfare? – Radio National Life Matters, Oct 12, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Rich excuses and poor outcomes on poverty – Michael Perusco The Punch, Oct 18, 2012
• Income inequality figures renew Newstart push – Lanai Vasek and Patricia Karvelas The Australian, Oct 17, 2012
• Taking the big stick to single parents is not the answer – Morag McArthur The Conversation, Oct 17, 2012
• Call to boost Newstart benefit as people slip into poverty – Lachlan Thompson The Daily Examiner, Oct 17, 2012
• Advancing human rights in Australia – Frank Brennan Eureka Street, Oct 16, 2012
• Cat’s eye view on Australia’s poor – Fatima Measham Eureka Street, Oct 16, 2012
• Think the dole is generous? I did, until I tried living on it – Rebekah Devlin The Punch, Oct 18, 2012
• Thousands go hungry – Radio National Drive, Oct 16, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Foodbank report finds 70 per cent of welfare agencies have seen an increase in people needing help – ABC Newsradio Afternoons, Oct 16, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Laura Tchilinguirian is speaking to the CEO of Foodbank Australia, John Webster – Triple J Hack, Oct 16, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Poverty, always the poor relation – Ross Gittins SMH, Oct 17, 2012
• Relative Or Not, Poverty Matters – Ben Eltham New Matilda, Oct 16, 2012
• Poverty is not just somewhere else, but right here, right now, next door – Ross Womersley adelaidenow, Oct 15, 2012
• One in six Australian children living in poverty: report – Radio Adelaide The Wire, Oct 15, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Poverty report reveals regional ‘challenges’ – abc.net.au, Oct 16, 2012
• Have you ever lived below the poverty line? – Justine Davies news.com.au, Oct 15, 2012
• More people caught in grip of poverty cycle – Mike Derry NewsMail, Oct 16, 2012
• Pisasale puts hard sell on the big issue – Emma Sykes 612 ABC Brisbane, Oct 16, 2012
• 1 in 6 Australian kids live in poverty: report – AFP, The China Post, Oct 16, 2012
• Parents missing meals to feed their children – Patricia Karvelas The Australian, Oct 16, 2012
• Anglicare says thousands going hungry – Miriam Hall The World Today abc.net.au, Oct 16, 2012 WATCH >>
• Aussie school children left hungry: report – AAP World News Oct, 16, 2012
• Income divide widens for rich and poor – Patricia Karvelas The Australian, Oct 17, 2012
• Push to lift dole, spread boom profit – AAP Canberra Times, Oct 15, 2012
• One in six Australian childen ‘living in poverty’ – AFP Google News, Oct 16, 2012
• Infographic | Which seats have the highest unemployment? – Edmund Tadros AFR, Oct 15, 2012
• What is ‘poor’? Finding the bread line in an affluent Australia – Bernard Keane Crikey, Oct 15, 2012
• Poverty a Persistent Problem in Australia – Report – Pro Bono News, Oct 15, 2012
• 2.26 Million Aussies Live in Poverty – Vittorio Hernandez International Business News, Oct 15, 2012
• Community groups highlight poverty problem – abc.net.au, Oct 15, 2012
• More than two million Aussies in poverty – Sky News, Oct 13, 2012
• State’s great financial divide – Brisbane Times, Oct 14, 2012
• Almost 25% near poverty – Bruce Mounster The Mercury, Oct 15, 2012
• Going without food in some households is the norm, says study – Dan Harrison and Daniella Miletic SMH, Oct 16, 2012
• Poverty forcing families to forego food – ABC Radio National Breakfast, Oct 16, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Growing number of children hungry due to poverty – AAP Daily Telegraph, Oct 16, 2012
• Harsh realities of a policy that moves more into poverty – Veronica Sheen The Conversation, Oct 12, 2012
• Sole Parents Deserve Better – Eva Cox New Matilda, Oct 11, 2012
• A blow to single parents, on the eve of Anti-Poverty Week – Ged Kearney The Punch, Oct 15, 2012
• One in eight living in poverty – ABC Radio National Breakfast October 15, 2012 LISTEN>>
• More than two million Aussies in poverty – AAP Brisbane Times, Canberra Times, The Australian, Oct 14, 2012
• More than two million living in poverty – Vince Chadwick SMH, WA Today, Oct 15, 2012
• 1 in 8 Australians living in poverty: report – abc.net.au / 7pm news, Oct 15, 2012 WATCH>>
• Report says 1 in 8 Australians living in poverty – Radio New Zealand, Oct 14, 2012
• More than 2 million Aussies in poverty: report – AAP SBS News, Oct 14, 2012
• One in six children living in poverty – Jared Owens The Australian, Oct 15, 2012
• South Australia has one in every eight people living below poverty line –  Lauren Novak adelaidenow, Oct 14, 2012
• Jobs and housing costs mean more live in poverty in NSW – Vince Chadwick SMH, Oct 15, 2012
• 14 per cent of Tasmanians live in poverty – Dinah Arndt Launceston Examiner, Oct 14, 2012
• No special deals for single mums – Patricia Karvelas The Australian, Oct 13, 2012
• ‘If you look at the cost of living, it’s barely enough to get by’ – David McCowen SMH, Oct 15, 2012
• Record electricity price hikes leave customers cold – Karen Collier and Matt Johnston Herald Sun, Oct 10, 2012
• Revealed: Why you pay so much for power – Matt Johnston News Ltd adelaidenow, Oct 9, 2012
• Julia Gillard fights off welfare revolt – Patricia Karvelas The Australian, Oct 10, 2012
• Parent welfare cuts pass parliament – Lisa Martin and Andrea Hayward AAP The Herald Sun, Oct 9, 2012
• Parents show unity for a single cause – The Australian Financial Review, Oct 10, 2012
• How some children miss out from the start: will telling their stories help make a difference? Melissa Sweet Croakey, Oct 9
• From Centrelink to success – Today Tonight Yahoo7 News, Oct 9, 2012 WATCH>>
• The welfare lobby’s dodgy logic – Andrew Baker CIS InCise, Oct 9, 2012
• Welfare cuts worry Labor backbenchers – Lisa Martin AAP Adelaidenow, Oct 8, 2012
• UN appeal for sole parents – Northern Star, Oct 8, 2012
• MPs up in arms over wheat and welfare – Philip Coorey SMH, Oct 9, 2012
• Parties to come out (in)fighting as Parliament resumes – Ross Peake Canberra Times, Oct 9, 2012
• Could cutting sole parent payments cost Australia UN votes? – Eva Cox Crikey ,Oct 8, 2012
• Backbenchers bid to halt ‘crazy’ welfare reforms – ABC Lateline, Oct 8, 2012 WATCH>>
• Call to rethink cuts to single parent payments – ABC PM, Oct 8, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Claymore residents defend their suburb following Four Corners report – Dennis Clough Macarthur Chronicle, Oct 2, 2012
• See original Four Corners program here>>
• Alleviating homelessness – Dr Cassandra Goldie St James Ethics Centre, Oct 1, 2012

 

September

• Power price increases ‘not states’ fault’ – Mark Ludlow & Angela Macdonald-Smith AFR Sept 27, 2102
• Will A Charity Commission Cut Red Tape? – Eleanor Gibbs New Matilda September 26, 2012
• Paying people to relocate for jobs has failed – Patricia Karvelas The Australian Sept 25, 2012
• Growing Up Poor – Sarah Ferguson ABC 4 Corners Program Monday Sept 24, 2012
• Single-mother cuts to hit hardest in PM’s seat – Patricia Karvelas The Australian September 22, 2012
• Australians who don’t pay tax: what would Romney say? – Edmund Tadros & Katie Walsh AFR Sep 23, 2012
• 18,000 homeless sleep at shelters – Natasha Robinson The Australian Sep 24, 2012
• Boom-time policies lack vision – Don Owers Newcastle Herald Sept. 22, 2012 – Don Owers is a retired TAFE teacher who lives at Dudley and has an interest in our economic system
• Parent welfare delay urged – Dan Harrison The Age September 20, 2012
• Budget hole looms as MPs want dole for single mums delayed – Patricia Karvelas The Australian Sep 21, 2012
• Welfare agencies urge parliament to delay or reconsider plan for sole parent payments – Alex Kirk AM Sep 21, 2012
• Gag clauses help ‘stop grant abuse’ – Daniel Hurst Brisbane Times Sep 19, 2012
• Govt Moves to Ban NFP Gag Clauses – Pro Bono News Sep 20, 2012
• Prison mentoring program needs money – Toby Mann AAP The Australian Sep 19, 2012
• Pensioners gain, but little joy for those on allowances – Peter Martin The Age Sep 20, 2012
• NFP Directors Sceptical About Impact of ACNC – Pro Bono News September 17, 2012
• Seven misleads viewers over Newstart – Kate Ausburn New Matilda Sep 14, 2012
• Coalition to oppose charity reform bill – The Australian Financial Review Sep 13, 2012 (paywall)
• Sector Gender Audit Revealed – Pro Bono News Sep 12, 2012
• Shortage of top women in welfare sector – Patricia Karvelas The Australian Sep 12, 2012
• EDITORIAL: Women at the top still a distant reality – Caroline Lambert, Cassandra Goldie and Ruth Medd Canberra Times Sep 12, 2012
• Newstart Inquiry – ABC RN Sep 12, 2012
• Newstart comparisons ‘misleading’ – ACOSS media release Sep 10, 2012
• ACOSS push for dole increase – Bianca Hall The Age Sep 10, 2012
• Minimum wage better than dole, ACOSS tells Labor – Patricia Karvelas The Australian Sep 10, 2012
• Pension, dole payments drifting further apart – Dan Harrison The Age Sep 8, 2012
• Some unemployed paid above minimum wage – Mark Riley, 7News September 7, 2012 WATCH>>
• Fruitless search for jobless who can live on $35 a day – Cassandra Goldie and Maree O’Halloran The National Times September 6, 2012
• Minister in vow on homeless targets – Patricia Karvelas The Australian September 6, 2012
• Concern wording to mask homeless reality – Patricia Karvelas The Australian Sep 5, 2012 (paywall)
• Hard times, but dole rise opposed – Stephanie Peatling Sun-Herald Sep 2, 2012

August

• 2.5 million Australians living in poverty – 2SER August 31, 2012 LISTEN>>
• Government promises dental care for millions – 7.30 Report, ABC WATCH>>
  ACOSS Deputy CEO Tessa Boyd-Caine.
• Labor and Greens grinning over dental plan – Julian Drape, AAP WATCH>> Channel 7 News ACOSS Deputy CEO Tessa Boyd-Caine
• Millions set to benefit from new dental care scheme that will also save $2.5bn – Ben Packham The Australian August 29, 2012
• Shorten opens the door to debate on Newstart rates – Dan Harrison SMH August 30, 2012
• Apologetic Shorten open to increasing dole – Milanda Rout The Australian August 30, 2012
• Newstart a road to poverty, not jobs, say welfare groups – Lanai Vasek and Milanda Rout The Australian August 29, 2012
• Revealed: dole recipients too poor to buy food, medication or heating – Peter Martin, Dan Harrison SMH August 29, 2012
• MPs challenged to try living on $35 a day – Anna Caldwell The Courier-Mail August 29, 2012
• It’s a hard dole life – Adam Creighton The Australian August 29, 2012
• Inadequate welfare humiliating: St Vinnies – Lisa Martin Channel Nine August 28, 2012
• We just want a normal life, says struggling family – Milanda Rout The Australian August 29, 2012
• Will a Newstart boost actually deter jobseekers? – Peter Whiteford The Conversation August 28, 2012
• Will Shorten’s short comment haunt him? – Richard Farmer Crikey August 28, 2012
• Newstart payments too low, say DHS staff – AAP Courier-Mail August 27, 2012
• ACTU flags its backing for jobless insurance scheme – Pia Akerman The Australian August 28, 2012
• Community groups call for dole tribunal – Anna Caldwell Herald Sun August 28, 2012
• Old prejudices leave Newstart recipients cut adrift – Kasy Chambers SMH August 27, 2012
• Dole’s far too low: report – Bianca Hall SMH August 27, 2012  National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling for church welfare agencies
• 15pc on dole can’t pay basic expenses – John Ferguson The Australian August 27, 2012
• Push to delay cut in parent payment – Dan Harrison SMH August 24, 2012
• Bill Shorten holds the line on parenting payments – Patricia Karvelas The Australian August 24, 2012
• Hold off on parent pay cuts: committee – AAP The Courier Mail August 23, 2012
• Labor MPs urge delay of Gillard’s single parent pension bill – Patricia Karvelas The Australian August 23, 2012
• Cutting dole would ease labour crisis: bank chief – Peter Kerr The West Australian August 22, 2012 ANZ chief executive Mike Smith said welfare payments could be cut to encourage workers to move to labour-starved.
• Bank boss calls for cut in Newstart to force jobless to move – but welfare lobby says dole should be increased to $50/day – ABC Newsradio Breakfast: August 22, 2012 LISTEN >> Marius Benson talks with Cassandra Goldie, head of the Australian Council of Social Service.
• Welfare agencies report national food shortage – abc.net.au August 21, 2012 A new survey of Australian welfare agencies by Foodbank shows they are struggling to meet the demand for food relief.
• Shorten backs push for low dole – Patricia Karvelas The Australian August 20, 2012
• Unions call for $50 dole boost – Clay Lucas The Age August 20, 2012
• Lest we forget the moral principle of fairness – Peter Saunders The Australian August 18, 2012
• Paxtons have gone but dole trap remains – David Hetherington The Australian August 18, 2012
• Community welfare groups face big cuts to vital funds – Adele Horin SMH August 16, 2012
• Money, money, money – Radio Adelaide Breakfast LISTEN >> CEO of the Business Council of Australia, Jennifer Westacott, speaks to Tim Brunero about possible plans to raise the welfare allowance and minimum wage.
• SBS Radio, Melbourne >> LISTEN >> World News Australia: August 14, 2012 Interview with Dr Cassandra Goldie.
• Legal aid and homelessness services in crisis: ACOSS Report >> LISTEN >> syn.org.au August 14, 2012 Reporter Chad Phillips spoke with ACOSS deputy CEO Tessa Boyd Caine about the troubling findings of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2012.
• Radio Adelaide, Adelaide >>LISTEN >> The Wire, August 13, 2012
• ACOSS: Cut negative gearing to help poor – AAP SMH The Age August 15, 2012
• ABC Q&A: WATCH>> Big Ideas and Big Society, August 13, 2012. Featuring Cassandra Goldie, Peter Singer, Mark Butler, Philip Blond, Pru Goward.
• ABC TV Breakfast Interview: Watch>> August 13, 2012.
• ABC RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly: LISTEN>> August 13, 2012.
• ABC TV News: Nation’s vulnerable are being turned away by welfare organisations: WATCH>> August 13, 2012.
• Community legal service ‘in crisis’ – The Wire >> LISTEN >> August 13, 2012.
• Increased demand stresses community sector – AAP SMH / Ninemsn / Herald Sun August 13, 2012
• Cut negative gearing to help poor: ACOSS – Yahoo7 News August 13, 2012
• Why has dental health been getting the brush off? Melissa Sweet, crikey.com.au August 14, 2012
• Nation’s vulnerable are being turned away by welfare organisations – Antonette Collins ABV TV News August 12, 2012 WATCH >>
• Housing top worry for disadvantaged, agencies’ poll shows – Adele Horin SMH, The Age, Brisbane Times, Canberra Times August 13, 2012
• 20,000 refused help with housing – Nicola Berkovic The Australian August 13, 2012
• DWINDLING RESOURCES Services struggle to help needy – Shane Wright, West Australian August 13, 2012
• Welfare groups brace for impact of APS cuts – Canberra Times August 13, 2012
• States leave consumers clueless on pricing – Alexandra Smith SMH August 9, 2012 ACOSS & Choice accuse the states of putting ”political squabbles” before consumers by not signing up to a national energy customer framework.
• Children hide poverty to protect parents, study finds – Adele Horin SMH August 8, 2012 Making a Difference report by the Social Policy Research Centre and the Smith Family.
• Charities fear fallout as winter bites – Karen Collier and Nathan Mawby August 08, 2012 St Vincent de Paul Society energy analyst Gavin Dufty
• Welfare Groups struggle to cope with hundreds of thousands in need – Laetitia Lemke ABC TV News August 05, 2012
• Shared political will is crucial to halve homelessness – Eleri Morgan-Thomas National Times August 6, 2012
• Problem gamblers’ Salvation – The Daily Telegraph August 06, 2012
• Government betrays its most needy citizens – ABC’s Jonathan Green The Drum August 02, 2012
• Born to run for the fair go – Wayne Swan National Times August 1, 2012 Treasurer Wayne Swan annual John Button lecture

July

• Reforming the GST a tough sell – Claire Stewart and Natalie Gerritsen AFR July 31, 2012 Cassandra Goldie says the time is not right to increase GST
• Employment Minister prepared to look at welfare reform – Milanda Rout The Australian July 30, 2012 Employment Minister Bill Shorten tells SKY News ‘I am fully aware (that) trying to get along on $249 a week is an incredibly difficult ask, so certainly we think that what the Senate investigation comes up with will be something which we’ll look at with great interest.”
• Western Sydney tackles homelessness – Lindy Kerin ABC AM Program July 27, 2012 Mission Australia Report
• Child support formula baffles 90% of parents – study – Adele Horin SMH July 23, 2012
• Single parents dole policy to hurt children, ACOSS warns – Patricia Karvelas The Australian July 20, 2012
• One-stop shop for regulation of charities and not-for-profits – by Elisabeth Sexton SMH July 28, 2012
• ACOSS concerns over the income management scheme – By Cameron Wilson Bush Telegraph ABC RN Wednesday, 18 July 2012 – Dr Cassandra Goldie Listen here >>
• Centrelink income management plan goes regional – By Claudette Werden Bush Telegraph ABC RN Tuesday, 17 July 2012 – Karen, volunteer for the income management program, Western Australia; Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs – Listen here >>
• Aboriginal group defies criticism with income management plea – Jeff Waters 7.30 ABC TV, July 17, 2012
• Aboriginal elders ask for income management – Jeff Waters PM Program ABC Radio, July 17, 2012
• Act of clarity: non-profit tax issues under review – Elisabeth Sexton SMH July 17, 2012
• Social outcomes in sight – Elena Douglas AFR July 17, 2012 Elena Douglas is convenor, Centre for Social Impact, UWA Business School
• Single parents deserve support, not scapegoating – Emma Davidson The Drum July 16, 2012 – Equality Rights Alliance is managed by YWCA Australia
• I want to provide people with the skills they need to best manage their money in the interests of their children – By Jenny Macklin & Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine Herald Sun Sunday, 15 July 2012
• Unemployed Australians and the Dole – Sunday Nights ABC RN July 15, 2012 Guests: Greens senator Rachael Siewert; Lin Hatfield Dodds, UnitingCare; Roland Manderson, Anglicare; Paul O’Callaghan, Catholic Social Services
• Welfare dependency continues to shrink – ABC PM Program July 10, 2012 Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine LISTEN >>
• Centrelink’s new Basics card – Damien Hansen Today Tonight July 9, 2012
• Rethinking Welfare: Is the Newstart Allowance too low? Weekend Sunrise July 8, 2012 Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, ACOSS and John Roskam, Institute of Public Affairs – Watch >>
• No state deal yet on welfare trial – Dan Harrison SMH/The Age July 9, 2012
• Swan claim on tax ‘deceptive’ – Katie Walsh AFR July 9, 2012
• Cash to help kids see other parent – Patricia Karvelas The Australian July 4, 2012
• Greens call for rethink on Newstart – Patricia Karvelas The Australian July 03, 2012
• Sole parents marooned on dole – Patricia Karvelas The Australian July 3, 2012
• Minimum Wage Is Increased – Pro Bono Australia July 3, 2012
• Taxing times for households – Julieanne Strachan The Canberra Times July 1, 2012
• Australians not impressed by carbon tax, finds poll – Madeleine Genner ABC Radio Australia June 29 2012
• Mind the gap between carbon tax fears and reality – John Connor Climate Spectator July 1, 2012

 

June

• On carbon tax eve, how is the health system placed? Melissa Sweet Croakey June 29, 2012
• Impact of Climate Change on Social Services Investigation – Pro Bono Australia May June 29, 2012
• Carbon Pricing: How will it impact your household? – RN Breakfast Guests: Cassandra Goldie CEO, ACOSS, June 28, 2012 – Listen >>
• Impact of Climate Change on Social Services Investigation – Pro Bono Australia June 28, 2012
• Income Management welfare program extended – RN Breakfast, Guests: John Falzon, CEO, St Vincent de Paul Society, June 28, 2012 – Listen >>
• Newstart increase has Alan Jone’s support! Kings of talkback – Sunrise Alan Jones is a strong advocate of raising Newstart! June 27, 2012 Watch here >>
• Mind the gap between carbon tax fears and reality – John Connor, Climate Spectator June 27 2012
• Inquiry into dole amount – RN Breakfast June 27, 2012 Guest: Maree O’Halloran, President of the National Welfare Rights Network. Listen >>
• Income management expansion gets mixed response – 7.30 ABC TV June 27, 2012 Watch >>
• Inquiry into dole amount – Maree O’Halloran, RN Breakfast, President of the National Welfare Rights Network, interviewed by Fran Kelly, June 27, 2012
• Hopes Senate probe will raise ‘low’ dole – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian June 27, 2012
• Newstart inquiry given green light – Peter Martin The Age June 27, 2012
• Greens work to revamp Newstart – Peter Martin The Age June 25, 2012
• Carbon tax marks biggest overhaul since the GST – Clancy Yeates The Saturday Age June 23, 2012
• Cuts to single mums breaches human rights – Julia Holamn, Hack Triple J, June 21, 2012
• ACA breaches Code for identifying child – David Knox, TV Tonight June 22, 2012
• Watchdog to test cuts to single pensions – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 21, 2012
• Human rights scrunity of pension cuts – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 21, 2012
• Parenting payment cuts to be investigated – AAP/Tracker June 20, 2012
• Welfare Peak Body to Appear Before Parliamentary Committee – Pro Bono Australia June 20, 2012
• Unemployed struggle as dole’s value declines – Patricia Karvelas June 19, 2012
• Coalition pursues work-for-dole scheme a dud in UK – Peter Martin The Age June 19, 2012
• Qld to scrap scheme linking school attendance to welfare payments – Rosanne Barrett The Australian June 19, 2012
• Gillard asked to let inquiry assess bill’s legality – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 16, 2012
• Welfare changes will punish single parents who work – Stephanie Peatling Sun Herald, Maree O’Hallaron, National Welfare Rights Network June 17, 2012
• Dr Cassandra Goldie on Sunday Extra: Outsiders on ABC RN Presenter: Jonathan Green; Guests: Toby Ralph, Marketing strategist; Chris Berg, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs; Dr Cassandra Goldie, ACOSS CEO. Listen >>  June 17, 2012
• Stop charity meddling, urges opposition – AAP The Australian June 15, 2012
• Gillard wants business to talk up economic strength – ABC News June 13, 2012
• Ombudsman slams Centrelink on NT income management decisions, communication – Sue Dunlevy The Australian June 08, 2012
• PM to parents: I feel your pain – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 08, 2012
• Tighten the rules on welfare payments – Peter Saunders Online-Opinion June 8, 2012
• Labor MPs take up cause of single parents – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 07, 2012
• Solar funds redirected to councils, poor – AAP Ninemsn June 6, 2012
• Labor MPs fume over budget’s penalising of working single mums – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 05, 2012
• Budget crackdown will penalise single working mums – Patricia Karvelas The Australian June 02, 201
• Unions and business unhappy with minimum wage increase – ABC Online June 1, 2012

May

• Groups say no to single mum welfare cut – Lisa Martin AAP Daily Telegraph May 31 2012
• ACOSS leads call to MPs and senators to stop pension cut – Patricia Karvelas The Australian May 31, 2012
• Greens call for welfare inquiry – Lisa Martin AAP SMH May 31, 2012
• MPs protest over payments – Fleur Anderson AFR May 30, 2012
• Sole parents ‘demonised’ in jobs plan – Dan Harrison The Age May 30, 2012
• Study shows nation’s economic resilience – Adele Horin SMH May 30, 2012 (Professor Peter Saunders, of the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW. Professor Saunders, the study’s author, is Australia’s leading poverty researcher)
• Truants will get Gillard Government’s $820 bonus – Anna Caldwell Courier Mail May 30, 2012
• Pensioners to get paid for carbon price – Peter Martin May 28, 2012
• After a pregnant pause, the phoney mummy wars resume – Suzy Freeman-Greene The Age May 26, 2012
• Some absent fathers paying just $7 a week in child support – Samantha Maiden News Limited May 26, 2012
• ACOSS Appeals for Budget Re-Think – Pro Bono Australia, May 24, 2012
• ‘New start needed for broken welfare system’ – Patricia Karvelas The Australian May 24, 2012
• ACOSS Appeals for Budget Re-Think – Pro Bono Australia May 24 2012
• Jobless need help and motivation – Alan Mitchell AFR May 23, 2012
• The fair go has fairly gone – Chris Middendorp The Age/SMH May 23, 2012 (Chris Middendorp is a writer and community worker)
• Carbon reform critics are taxing credibility – John Connor The Daily Telegraph May 23, 2012 (John Connor is CEO of the Climate Institute)
• Bitter tears hide super self interest – Ross Gittins SMH May 23, 2012
• Could you live off $35 a day? – 4BC Brisbane Dr. Tess Boyd-Caine, Acting CEO, ACOSS May 22, 2012
• Is the dole enough? – The Project Channel 10 Sunday May 20, 2012
• Labor MPs push for dole increase – Misha Schubert and Stephanie Peatling Sunday Age May 20, 2012
• Anger as lone parents face benefit cuts – Yvonne Roberts The Observer, Sunday 20 May 2012
• Unemployed remain under the line – Jason Marshall City Hub May 20, 2012
• Poor singles also in need, say Salvation Army – Angus Thompson, Herald Sun May 18, 2012
• Delay for not-for-profit sector reforms – Ninemsn May 17 2012
• Newstart programs slammed by Howe – Ninemsn May 16 2012
• Surplus on the backs of the poor – John Falzon The Guardian May 16, 2012
• Those seeking charity go without meals, medication to make ends meet – Sophie Gosper The Australian May 16, 2012
• Single parent families: the pain our politicians don’t feel – Stephanie Peatling The Age May 17, 2012
• VCOSS Podcast: Wayne Swan post-budget address to community sector – VCOSS May 15, 2012
• Cheques to Stay Following Push from Community Sector – Pro Bono Australia May 15, 2012
• Wayne Swan’s class war budget lifts Labor base vote in Newspoll – Dennis Shanahan The Australian May 15, 2012
• Pitch from welfare welcomed – Patricia Karvelas The Australian May 15, 2012
• Business tax still on Swan’s agenda – Lucille Keen and Laura Tingle May 15, 2012
• Strong economy linked to fairness, Swan – Sky News May 14 2012
• Strong economy supports fair society: Swan – Colin Brinsden AAP May 14, 2012
• NDIS will right wrongs of the past: Swan – AAP May 14, 2012
• Welfare Community Pushes Treasurer on Budget Shortfalls – Jackie Hanafie Monday, May 14, 2012
• Swan enters debate on class warfare – Peter Martin The Age May 14, 2012
• Welfare groups set to grill Wayne Swan – AAP News May 14, 2012
• ACOSS on The Project Sunday Night – WATCH >> 2.45 minutes into clip. Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, Acting CEO,
• Parents to go ‘from welfare to poverty’ – Patricia Karvelas The Australian May 11, 2012
• Single mums to bear brunt of $200m job agencies cut – Patricia Karvelas The Australian May 10, 2012
• Labor’s desperate bid to get re-elected – Michael Gill SMH May 10 2012
• Report finds hungry kids as parents struggle – Laetitia Lemke ABC TV News May 10 2012
• Single Parent Budget Cuts – Fran Kelly interview Tony Nicholson May 10 2012
• Changes to hurt single parents – Fleur Anderson Australian Financial Review May 10 2012
• Most vulnerable still fall between cracks, says agency -Adele Horin SMH May 10 2012
• Fair overall: welfare groups -Lauren Wilson and Lanai Vasek The Australian May 9 2012
• Coalition finds cracks in Government’s debt ceiling -Anna Caldwell Courier Mail May 9 2012
• Medical claims to be means tested -Annette Sampson May 9 2012 SMH
• How Swan got his surplus -Peter Martin SMH May 09 2012
• Health offset Medical claims to be means tested -Annette Sampson Canberra Times May 9 2012
• How Swan got his surplus -Peter Martin Canberra Times May 09 2012
• Swan’s Robin Hood Act Disappoints Some -Lisa Martin Ninemsn May 9 2012
• WA will be left $1.lb worse off, says Porter -Natasha Boddy West Australian May 9 2012
• Welfare Groups Respond to Budget -ABC News May 9 2012
• Health: Michael Marmot and the other budget lock-up -Melissa Sweet Crikey May 9 2012
• Welfare lobby “generally happy” with budget (AUDIO): ABC News Radio May 9 2012
• As it happened: Budget 2012 reaction – Ben Atherton , Katie Franklin and Matthew Liddy ABC May 9 2012
• Welfare advocate lobbied for Timor -David Scott SMH May 8 2012
• Punishing single parents to save some money – Lin Hatfield Dodds, UnitingCare May 8 2012
• ‘Labor values’ drive bid to get in the black -Andrew Probyn West Australian May 8 2012
• Mining tax to fund budget families boost -AAP Ninemsn May 8 2012
• Business not happy with Swan cut -AAP SMH May 8 2012
• Single parents hurt by budget: ACOSS -AAP Ninemsn May 8 2012
• Wayne Swan delivers a budget surplus -ABC Radio National May 8 2012 (Guest: Dr Cassandra Goldie)
• Budget 2012 -ABC Radio National May 8 2012 (Interview with Tessa Boyd Caine & Peter Martin)
• Plea to spare single parents from budget cuts -Peter Martin SMH May 7 2012
• ACOSS wants PM to increase payments -AAP Ninemsn May 7 2012
• PM urged to increase welfare payments -Big Pond News May 7 2012
• ACOSS wants PM to increase payments -AAP Business Spectator May 7 2012
• Council tries to stop cuts to 100,000 sole parents -Peter Martin SMH May 7 2012
• PM urged to increase welfare payments -Sky News May 7 2012
• Plea to spare single parents from budget cuts -Peter Martin WA Today May 7 2012
• Plea to spare sole parents from ‘disturbing’ Newstart push -Peter Martin Canberra Times May 7 2012
• Should we abandon the goal of a budget surplus? -Cassandra Goldie The Age, SMH May 5 2012
• Welfare bodies hit bite on benefits -Dan Harrison The Age May 5 2012
• Nudge nudge, wink wink, nanny soaks the poor to fatten the budget -Julie Novak The Australian May 01 2012

April

• Budget casts shadow on middle class welfare – Samantha Hawley ABC April 29 2012
• Urgent Call to Increase the Dole – ABC April 29 2012
• ACOSS suggests tax reform would save billions – Fran Kelly ABC RN Breakfast April 26 2012 LISTEN >>
• New savings suggestions from welfare lobby group ACOSS, as treasurer crunches Budget numbers – ABC News Radio April 26 2012 LISTEN to interview with Marius Benson>>
• Government urged to trim $8bn in tax breaks – ABC News April 26 2012
• Want $8 billion in savings? Attack welfare for the well-off – Peter Martin Fairfax April 26 2012
• Welfare lobby suggests budget cuts – David Uren, The Australian April 26 2012
• Cut tax rebates, save $8bn, says report – AAP The Australian April 26 2012
• Cut tax rebates and save govt $8bn: report – AAP Ninemsn Apr 26 2012
• Welfare groups want tax discounts on golden handshakes for executives – Phillip Hudson Herald Sun April 26, 2012
• Poor bear brunt of ‘nanny taxes’ – Exclusive: Adam Creighton, The Australian April 26 2012
• The painful truth about trying to live on $35 a day – Peter Martin SMH The Age April 24 2012
• Survey indicates unemployment benefits are not enough to live on – Ross Peak Canberra Times April 24 2012
• Recapping a welfare week – Alexandra Lamb The Age April 22 2012
• Outsiders – ABC RN Sunday Extra, April 22, 2012 Guests: Professor Peter Whiteford – Director, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Chris Berg – Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs, Ben Eltham – National Affairs correspondent for New Matilda & fellow for the Centre for Policy Development LISTEN >>
• Hockey criticises Australia’s welfare safety net – RN Breakfast April 20, 2012 – LISTEN >>
• Razor gangs and welfare reformers must not lose sight of evidence – SMH Opinion April 20 2012
• Super Duped – Mike Seccombe The Global Mail April 20 2012
• The politics of housing: locking us out of affordable solutions – Sarah Toohey The Drum April 20 2012 (Sarah Toohey is Campaign Director of Australians for Affordable Housing)
• Paltry Newstart Allowance is fast becoming a poverty trap – Peter Whiteford The Conversation April 20 2012
• Womersley: Getting by on $35 a day – Ross Womersley Adelaide Advertiser April 20, 2012
• Hockey hits nerve with talk of chop to welfare – Phillip Coorey SMH April 20, 2012
• Coalition tries to hose down talk of welfare cuts – Alexandra Kirk ABC April 20 2012
• ACOSS boss says any crackdown on government payouts should target the rich, not the poor – NewsRadio April 19, 2012 LISTEN to Interview Cassandra Goldie with Kathy Bell
• Imagining Australia in 2030 – Radio National Big Ideas April 19, 2012 (Highlights of the Imagining Australia in 2030 session at the Australian Council of Social Service conference) LISTEN >>
• Panel discussion: Welfare spending – RN Drive April 19, 2012 Listen or Download Cassandra Goldie and Peter Whiteford with Waleed Aly
• Hockey calls for smaller welfare state, smaller government – The World Today April 19 2012
• Hockey’s flagged cuts to income support short lived – ABC PM April 19 2012
• Hockeynomics Eats Our Safety Net – Ben Eltham New Matilda April 19 2012
• Minimal calls to welfare fraud line investigated – Patricia Karvelas The Australian April 19 2012
• Abuse as a child linked to longer term homeless – Adele Horin SMH April 19 2012
• Sebastopol woman calls for rise in Centrelink Newstart Allowance – Tom McIlroy Ballarat Courier 18 April 2012
• Newstart benefit fails even to pay the rent – Peter Martin The Age SMH April 17 2012
• Newstart not enough to make a difference – Tony Reidy, Launceston Examiner April 17 2012 (Tony Reidy, CEO of TasCOSS – the peak body for the Tasmanian community services sector)
• The cost of poverty is way more expensive than the dole – John Falzon The Punch April 17 2012 (Dr John Falzon is the chief executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council)
• Sacked workers use savings before dole kicks in – Patricia Karvelas The Australian April 17 2012
• It costs more to leave people homeless than it does to help them – Meredith Griffiths ABC AM Program April 17 2012 (Mission Australia)
• Ballarat’s welfare recipients living on $35 a day – Tom McIlroy Editorial Ballarat Courier April 16 2012
• Budget figures mean little when jobs are hard to come by – Editorial Ballarat Courier April 16 2012
• No charge for mailed Centrelink statements – AAP SMH April 16 2012
• Extra $50 in dole will cost $117m – Staff Writers The Advertiser April 16 2012
• Senator to spend week on the dole – AAP Herald Sun April 13 2012
• Greens Senator’s pledge of ‘poverty’ – ABC Radio PM Program – Friday, April 13 2012 (The Greens Senator, Rachel Siewert, and Cassandra Goldie) LISTEN to Rachel Siewert interview with Fran Kelly on ABC RN Breakfast >>
• Dumping on charities – Salvation Army says carbon tax will be a costly load of rubbish – EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis The Daily Telegraph April 11 2012
• Government to trial welfare shake-up – Nick McCallum 3AW Morning program April 10 2012
• Should public servants run people’s lives in this extreme manner? Is this a dangerous level of socialism that Australia shouldn’t experiment with? Listen to the interview and have your say >> April 10 2012
• Swan stands by negative gearing – The Australian April 9 2012
• NSW leader John Robertson calls for debate on changes to negative gearing– The Australian April 08 2012
• Welfare staff facing rise in violence – The Age April 7, 2012
• New face of homelessness is likely to be old and female | SMH April 07 2012
• Super ‘biased against lower paid’ – SMH April 07 2012
• Father of super says system ‘inequitable‘ -The Canberra Times April 7 2012
• Housing policies: designed to create stress, inequity and other health and social problems – Crikey April 3 2012

March

• Disability plan to be fast-tracked with budget cuts to bankroll scheme -Sue O’Reilly The Australian March 31 2012
• Dole Rise Ruled Out -Weekend Post March 31 2012
• GetUp targets billionaires -Weekend Post March 31 2012
• Mixed messages but childcare rebate to escape means test – Canberra Times March