New Start
Jasmine Shirrefs writes about their experience of being on the Centrelink unemployed pension.
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Planned destitution of people seeking asylum: An “act of grace”?
Since 1991, people seeking asylum have been ineligible for any form of social security, instead they have made do with the little assistance they get under a constantly changing policy-based approach. In a new round of cuts within this policy, vast numbers of people seeking asylum will be at risk of avoidable destitution and homelessness.