Responding to Pru Goward’s opinion piece last week, the head of ACOSS warns against looking at the symptoms of poverty rather than the real lack of opportunity that lies behind it.

Celebrated cook Maggie Beer has demanded action to improve the care of some of the most vulnerable Australians, decrying the fact that some aged-care centres spend as little as $7 a day on food for...

Doubling unemployment benefits for struggling households during the pandemic has led to a groundswell of support for a permanent increase in dole payments.

The Jobseeker payment leaves unemployed Australians below the poverty line and it’s time for that to change, according to social services groups and economists.

The Department of Human Services has wiped a $4000 debt owed by a Melbourne nurse, which is at the centre of a Federal Court challenge to Centrelink's 'robo-debt' recovery scheme.

As entire lower house crossbench agrees on increasing unemployment benefit, major parties accused of being ‘out of touch’

Liberal MPs want a pathway out of the mammoth job assistance programs that are supporting more than five million workers through the coronavirus crisis.

The best way to stimulate the economy would be to increase the Newstart allowance because it would be quickly spent, in full.

The stage 3 tax cuts are too big to fit on a single screen. We had to get creative to put them into perspective.

Linda Burney could be in charge of welfare payments within months. She says the dole is too low and must be a priority.

Anne Ruston says the reporting of her comments was ‘misleading’ and she only wants to reduce barriers to employment

Internal emails show the Tax Office was told the robodebt scheme was unlawful.

New figures show 40% of people on unemployment benefit have an illness or disability that prevents them from working full-time

This government is consumed with telling poor people how to live. Why do you care how I spend my money?

Exclusive: findings comes as Coalition faces internal dissent over a bill to make the controversial welfare policy permanent at four trial sites

An Indigenous man will arrive in Canberra having walked almost 6,000 kilometres from Perth to raise awareness of Aboriginal issues.

A “humongous” lift in Australia’s tax take has put the Coalition in the best position to deliver personal income tax cuts in nine years.

The rate of Newstart is so low that many financial counsellors see no point in trying to help people on the payment set up a budget, senators hear.

We’ve crossed another poverty line

Marcia Langton threw her support behind the cashless welfare card in 2017, now the Indigenous Australian says the program is "big stick to punish the poor".

Labor and welfare groups want a temporary ban on "mutual obligation" programs like work for the dole during the coronavirus outbreak.

Influential Liberal MP Arthur Sinodinos found himself stumped on Monday’s Q&A, bluntly telling host Tony Jones “I don’t know” when asked to justify a policy of his own government.