Welfare

The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman.

Amid the biggesthousing crisisin Australia’s history and public housing being sold off, the most vulnerablepublic housing tenants say they are now even more isolated. Suzanne James reports.

Housing activists rallied in Redfern to demand New South Wales Labor stop its planned demolition of public housing in Waterloo and across the state. Kerry Smith reports.

Community members, aged care workers and politicians attended a snap protest againstthe City of Greater Geelong Council’s intention to close its aged care service. Angela Carr reports.

Karyn Brown, Waterloo public housing tenant and activist, saidNew South Wales Labor’s plan to push ahead with the demolition of the Waterloo estate is “ridiculous”. Isaac Nellist reports.

Human Rights Watch criticised the Western Australia government for the alarming rise in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families. Paul Gregoire reports.

Imagine a world where women were property, traded like livestock, silenced by veils and worked to death by the age of 30. Mary Merkenich looks at the context in which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution launched history’s most radical experiment for women’s emancipation.

Isaac Nellistspoke to Karyn Brown, a Waterloo public housing tenant and campaigner who has been leading the campaign to defend and extend public housing.

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鶹ý’s Mary Merkenich recently spoke with Daniel Kipka-Anton from German left party Die Linke.

Laurie Zio, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party Member for Fannie Bay, has been caught out misleading parliament about support for mandatory sentencing. Stephen W Enciso reports.

Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills.Peter Boylereports.

A new report found that an income of $130,000 a year is required to avoid rental stress, but Labor has no plan to address extortionate rents, argues Isaac Nellist.