We're off to Gladstone & the Banana Shire to hear from medicos about issues women face there. Here's Taylah & Sally talking to our board member Mitra Khakbaz, Gladstone Womens Health Centre CEO, about the difficulties patients have trying to access social security. #Centrelink

Thanks Aylin & Mark from Social Security Rights Victoria! Can you guess where they went to consult for our project to improve access to social security for women in regional and remote Australia? #Centrelink #CommunityLaw #FundEqualJustice

Our Senior Law Reform Officer Sally Cameron & CEO Kate Allingham in Canberra for a biannual meeting with DSS & Services Australia.
We raised ...
Improving debt letters
Improving access to payments for people experiencing family violence
Mutual obligations
Income apportionment

Our budget submission: buff.ly/3W0EkHJ 3/3

Our budget submission: buff.ly/3W0EkHJ 2/3

Our budget submission: buff.ly/3W0EkHJ 1/3

👏 Well said Bill 👏 Townsville Community Law
The more you lose people, the more we lose the ability to be insightful & actually effective at a systemic level, rather than just putting band aids on.
Let's #FundEqualJustice & invest much more in #CommunityLaw
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#Centrepay has crashed & become a vehicle for economic abuse. #Centrelink #Auspol
We're in a team effort to get this fixed.
Financial Counselling Australia
Mob Strong Debt Help
ICAN
Consumer Action
Financial Rights CLC
ACOSS
Our CEO Kate Allingham in the The Guardian 👇
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📢 We're looking for a senior lawyer.

Make a difference & help create an equitable Austalian society where everyone can thrive & meet their potential.

We will consider applicants with suitable skills & experience from anywhere in Australia.

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A key message to the Government inquiry on #COVID19 response: Draft social security law & policy with experts mindful of intersecting areas of Commonwealth responsibility. The social security system proved essential to the pandemic response 👉 More: buff.ly/4czMcph

EJA welcomes the continued ban on use of Centrepay by businesses operating in remote Australia & calls for broader Centrepay reform. Thanks to Financial Rights CLC ACOSS Consumer Action & Financial Counselling Australia ! For more info 👉 buff.ly/3TN164t

This survey is gathering info about the challenges people face due to their living situation & the quality of their home. Your opinions will inform what the Antipoverty Centre asks the government to do in the federal budget so we all have a climate safe home. 👇

The eagle has landed 🦅

Catherine Eagle (left) from Welfare Rights & Advocacy Service in Perth took a 14-hr round trip to Fitzroy Crossing to help people with #Centrelink issues

These clinics are vital in rural & remote places #CommunityLaw #FundEqualJustice

🙏 Legal Aid WA

Let’s open some doors this International Women's Day #InvestInWomen . We recently visited Fitzroy Crossing 👇 with Welfare Rights & Advocacy Service for our project to improve access to social security. Too many women in regional & remote Aus miss out on #Centrelink payments.

A date for the diary 📅

In this story about the backlog of claims, long waits & hang ups at #Centrelink , Hank Jongen at Services Australia says people will see things get better in April.

We hope so as 5 months is too long to wait for an age pension.

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Parliamentary Inquiry recommends Gov take urgent
action so Australians aren't living in poverty 👉 buff.ly/42ZR9Du
✔️Easy. Increase income support to a modest $78 per day so people can afford the basics like food, rent and medicine and transport. #RaiseTheRate

📢 Australia & Uruguay are negotiating a bilateral social security agreement.

👍 This would allow eligible citizens to get payments regardless of which of the countries they live in when they retire.

Australia has 32 of these agreements.

More here 👉 buff.ly/3TdMPNE

Scary times for so many people around the country 🔥 ⛈️ 🌪️
We're focused on enhancing Centrelink's support of communities after natural disasters. Right now community legal centres need more funding to help on the ground. #FundEqualJustice #CommunityLaw
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