ACOSS in the News | 2012 1/2
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This page contains links to news stories and articles from January - June 2012 that relate to our work.
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