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Child Poverty Report sounds alarm bells for Australia’s future
The Australia Institute’s report found people were overwhelmingly supportive of government measures to reduce child poverty, with four-in-five (81 per cent) agreeing that household income support payments should be set at a rate that did not cause any child in Australia to live in poverty.
Pay rise welcome but more needs to be done to address poverty
More than 2.6 million Australians have been granted a pay rise though this week’s decision by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to raise the nation’s minimum wage. The approved increase of 3.75 per cent takes effect at the beginning of July. The minimum hourly rate will rise from $23.23 an hour to $24.10, or by $33 per week for a full-time worker.
SPECIAL REPORT: Vatican says abortion, surrogacy, war, poverty are attacks on human dignity
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s latest document on human dignity highlights Pope Francis’ decade-long insistence that every human being – independent of their circumstances, stage of development or state of sin – possesses infinite and inalienable dignity that must be respected and protected.
761,000 kids must be brought out of poverty, says St Vincent De Paul Society
This year’s Anti-Poverty Week, which took place from 15 to 27 October, shone a light on the children of families who receive inadequate social security payments and depend on emergency support from charities such as St Vincent de Paul Society.
When is it ok to leave a child in poverty?
The Poverty In Australia 2022 report by the Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW Sydney, shows that 16.6 per cent of Australian children (or 761,000 kids) lived in poverty in the 2019/2020 financial year.
This was just one of the facts surrounding Child Poverty presented by Centrecare Inc Director and Valuing Children Initiative Co-Founder, Adj. Prof. Tony Pietropiccolo AM who was recently a keynote speaker at the Anti-Poverty Week 2022 Symposium.
Child poverty needs to be significantly reduced – if not eliminated from Australian society, says Centrecare Inc Director
Ahead of an upcoming symposium focusing on child poverty, WA Anti-Poverty Week Committee Co-Chair, Centrecare Inc Director, Adj. Prof. Tony Pietropiccolo, explained to The Record that approximately three quarters of a million Australian children live in poverty, with 100,000 of these in Western Australia.
National wage case decision gives low-income earners breathing space but still well below poverty line
The decision by the Fair Work Commission to increase the National Minimum Wage by 5.2 percent is welcome but workers on low incomes will still struggle to make ends meet.
Poverty driving children into forced labor must be tackled, Pope says
Pope Francis wrote that he hoped for greater commitment in working to find effective ways of protecting children’s dignity and rights through social protection systems and access to education.
PODCAST: Poverty and homelessness, a responsibility of all in the community
Over 9,000 people experience homelessness every day in WA and over 30,000 people are on the wait list for social housing. The Record podcast speaks to Centrecare Incorporated Director Adjunct Professor Tony Pietropiccolo AM to discuss why the state is in this crisis and how community support towards people faced with poverty and homelessness, makes a difference. By Amanda Murthy.
Failure to raise the rate could entrench disadvantage
The belongings of the homeless lay sprawled across the sidewalk in Perth city. CSSA CEO Ursula Stephens says the original rate of JobSeeker is a barrier to work. Constantly struggling to pay rent and buy food, let alone health or dental care, makes it hard to look for and interview well for a job. Photo: Archdiocese of Perth.
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