Welfare
A letter signed by more than 100 legal experts and community organisations criticising a bill that would give the federal Minister power to cancel welfare payments before a person is convicted of a cr...
The government's last-minute addition to its social security bill, granting the Minister power to suspend or cancel welfare payments before a person is convicted of a crime, will see children going hu...
The Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025 was sold as a tidy technical bill, a bureaucratic clean-up after yet another unlawful Centrelink debt scandal.
Advocates have condemned a last-minute amendment to a federal bill which would give the government power to suspend or cancel welfare payments before a person is convicted of a crime.
Grim new statistics reveal that regional Western Australia is experiencing a homelessness crisis of unprecedented proportions with nearly half of all Specialist Homelessness Services clients coming fr...
Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre will remain in operation until at least early 2028 after the state government pushed back its closure date for the third time.
Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The following article contains the name and image of a person who has died. William Brian Butler, known as Uncle Brian Butler, passed away in A...
The Northern Territory government has been urged to drop proposed changes that would make it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their communities.
Calls by the Northern Territory government to suspend welfare payments for parents of children not going to school seems unlikely to earn federal approval, with Malarndirri McCarthy citing across the...
Hearing loss is the main ear and hearing-related condition among Indigenous adults, while middle ear infections are still high among Indigenous children, a report says.
Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people need to travel more than an hour to visit a primary health care service. There are 131 of 412 Indigenous areas where more than 200 people live...
Groups that get the best results in cultural support, reunification with kin and connection to culture for children are receiving the least funding, a new report from Australia's peak body for Indigen...
The federal government has "reaffirmed its commitment to addressing entrenched, intergenerational disadvantage experienced by families and their children and communities" ahead of the second Investmen...