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Federal budget outcomes for single mothers and their children

05/30/2017 The Editor 1

From Jenny Davidson: Council of Single Mothers and their Children Vic The 2017 Federal budget includes a requirement for new and existing single parents who receive government benefits to prove they are not in a relationship […]

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Uluru Indigenous Convention goes for a treaty

05/28/2017 The Editor 0

Contributed by Jim Hayes The Uluru Convention of 250 leaders of Australia’s First Nations has ended up rejecting the focus on constitutional recognition, in favour of working to secure a sovereign treaty. A second proposal […]

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We are not being told the true story of unemployment

05/28/2017 The Editor 0

 By Joe Montero The claim that Australia’s unemployment rate went down from 5.9 in March to 5.7 in April is not true. My short response is based on the latest jobs figures from the Australian […]

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Successful rally protests government let down of pensioners

05/28/2017 The Editor 0

By Ugly The Fair Go For Pensioners 24 May rally at  the front  the State Library  in Melbourne’s Swanston Street went very well and attracted a decent crowd of participants. The rally had been organised in […]

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Turnbull’s ‘based on love’ drug welfare testing is no joke

05/15/2017 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero Malcolm Turnbull’s reference to the introduction of random drug testing for welfare recipients, as “a policy based on love,” is either the revelation of a cruel mind, or display of incredible ignorance. […]

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Strengthen union and community alliance

05/15/2017 The Editor 0

By members of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) In some ways, we are living in a frightening time. Partly, because we are facing enormous pressure that has been disorganising us at work. It […]

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This year’s budget cannot hide that behind the fiction it is more of the same

05/15/2017 The Editor 0

This article by Joe Montero was firs published in The Pen on  10 May in response to the 9 May budget A simple way to describe the 2017-18 federal budget is that it comes from […]

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Government intends to cut funding of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

05/02/2017 The Editor 0

 By Joe Montero The Turnbull government intends to change the prescribing software used by doctors, which will set a default on generic options and doctors will have to change this default to prescribe specific brands. […]

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  • In memory of David Gragg 04/01/2025
  • Share of wealth held by Australia’s wealthiest has increased tremendously since 2004 02/14/2025
  • Australia’s age pension is way too low and beneath the standard of other similar OECD nations 01/23/2025
  • Fair Go For Pensioners AGM 5 December 11 am 11/30/2024
  • A better future depends on setting new priorities for the Australia economy 11/18/2024

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