There is not a single property across Australia – or even a room in a shared house – that's affordable for someone on youth allowance, according to a new report from support organisation Anglicare Australia. ab.co/49INEDm

ACTU statement on Gaza

As long as Australia continues to export weapons parts to Israel's genocidal regime, its lip service about any kind of peace solution remains exactly that. Aus must end its 2-way trade of weapons and military components w/ Israel or risk violating the Genocide Convention. #Auspol

Important statement from Australian Unions

Today we’re outside the Downing Centre to call on the NSW Government to scrap the anti protest laws that were introduced by the last Liberal Government and are being used on peace activists.

#ProudToProtest

The Anthony Albanese Government could end the chronic underfunding of public schools with the stroke of a pen. It's time to step up #ForEveryChild

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Family and domestic violence is one of the main drivers of homelessness. We cannot solve homelessness without ensuring women and children have a safe place to go. Read our NSW pre-budget submission here: bit.ly/3xFJzT5

Union members are calling for a 5% increase to the minimum wage, so that working people can keep up with the cost of living.

35% of young people accessing homelessness services in Australia have experienced domestic and family violence (AIHW, 2023). This Youth Homelessness Matters Day, let’s commit to holding children and young people in view, together we can do more! #YHMD2024

For anyone feeling distressed by this please know there is support available.

Lifeline on 13 11 14 or online lifeline.org.au/crisis-chat/

Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636 or online beyondblue.org.au/get-support/ta…

13 YARN (13 92 76)

I'm in this video with some great colleagues from community legal centres, sharing why portable long service leave for community workers is important to me. Australian Services Union

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I’m a proud member of Union Aid Abroad and if you’re not a member of the union movement’s global justice organisation, you should be.

Social work students are forced to work 1,000 hours for free.

We need 10,000 new social workers but less than 1,600 graduate every year.

No one can work 6 months for free.

We need to end unpaid placements now.

Jason Clare MP can fix this in the May budget.

📢 The students united will never be defeated.

📢 End unpaid placements now.

📢 All work must be paid.

It’s time for the Federal Government to end placement poverty in the May budget.

ASU members are calling on Federal Education Minister Jason Clare MP to end unpaid student placements.

Students can’t afford to work for 6 months for free - and are dropping out of essential degrees like social work.

The federal government must fix this in the federal budget.

In our recent cost of living survey, over half of workers said they were putting off seeing a health professional. Time for a pay rise? Sign the petition: bit.ly/WorthMoreAtWor…

Media alert: Today ASU members are joining social work students at a rally against placement poverty.

The government must fix this in the federal budget.

Our partner MA'AN Development delivering fresh food to families in Rafah. This work is funded directly by contributions of Australian unions and individual donors, providing vegetables grown in Gaza on a local farm since the start of the war. Your support making a real difference!

Aboriginal legal services forced to turn people away:
'It’s up to the government to respond with a funding increase in this year’s federal and state budgets.' rb.gy/d5fsya
#fundequaljustice #communitylaw #Auspol2024

We asked ASU members how they are coping in the current cost of living crisis, and almost 50% told us that they’re living paycheck-to-paycheck.

This has to change! Join ASU members calling for a 5% pay rise: bit.ly/DeserveBetter24