Welfare
This year's Child Protection Week (September 6-12) theme, Every Conversation Matters: Shifting Conversation to Action, is an important one. Because when it comes to Aboriginal* children and families...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced bills to Federal Parliament to end two harmful practices in criminal legal systems across Australia: the strip searching of children and the shackling of people dur...
Families across Fiji can now access a free parenting app offering practical support from pregnancy through to a child's first six years. The Bebbo Pacific Parenting App was launched by the Ministry of...
After Mount Isa's only Indigenous social housing provider accumulated almost $1 million in unpaid rates, resulting in 25 properties being placed up for auction, the federal government is facing scruti...
The Fiji Government has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Fiji to construct a Child Wellbeing Centre aimed at supporting children who are street-connected across the country's four divisions.
Lidia Thorpe has demanded a public apology from Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek after the minister criticised the Victorian Senator's opposition to a controversial amendment allowing the gove...
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services has reiterated its grave concerns, alongside over 100 legal experts and community groups, to the Federal Government's Social Security...
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.
