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It is another Anti-Poverty Week; yet another year where a Federal Government has repeatedly made the choice to keep job-seekers and others on welfare payments living hundreds of dollars per week below the poverty-line, on some of the lowest unemployment payments among wealthy nations.Albanese promised: "No one held back and no one left behind" - it still says it on his website!!!
But after 4 years, the poverty crisis remains profound and painful.
We have long known that poverty damages people’s health. We also know that poverty can shorten people’s lives: recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare research indicates people on welfare payments have a mortality rate 9 times higher, and a suicide rate 5 times higher, than the rest of the country.
This is outrageous, especially in a country this wealthy. It is also preventable.
Join us this Anti-Poverty Week outside the office of Mark Butler, Federal Health Minister, as we call for an urgent, significant boost to JobSeeker and other welfare payments, to above the poverty-line, so that no one needs to live on an income where they cannot look after their health, be part of their community, or live with dignity.
We need your help to fight for real action on the poverty crisis!!
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