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Canberra Round Table TOMORROW 8am – Poor Australians paying the price with their health and bills after a record breaking summer

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25th of March 2024   This past summer’s record temperatures and extreme weather left many Australians struggling to stay safe and comfortable in their own homes. Now a coalition of community groups are heading to Canberra to meet with decision-makers and discuss solutions to protect people from the health impacts of severe temperatures, ease their … Continued

Alert: APH report launch today on community legal sector crisis – Local services forced to turn away 1,000 people every day

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Later today, Community Legal Centres Australia will launch its latest snapshot of the sector at Parliament House, revealing that local community legal services nationwide are being forced to turn away 1,000 people every day.  The report, A sector in crisis, documents the overwhelming demand faced by legal assistance services, as well as the workforce crisis … Continued

Tackling the root of the problem: $5.2m of illicit tobacco destroyed

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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO), with the support of the Australian Border Force led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) and Victoria Police’s VIPER Taskforce, has seized and destroyed more than 2,700 kgs of illicit tobacco at a property in Pentland Hills, Victoria. Through Operation Bonnybridge, officers attended the property this week and located four acres of … Continued

CFMEU

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CFMEU National Secretary Zach Smith statement regarding Work Health and Safety Ministers’ Meeting today:   “The CFMEU welcomes confirmation engineered stone will be banned from July 1 after our union’s successful Stop This Killer Stone campaign.   “Federal, state and territory governments have backed our call to ban the importation, use and manufacture of engineered … Continued

ITECA Secures Safeguards In New Skills Training Regulator Legislation

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After an intense period of lobbying, the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) has secured amendments to legislation reforming the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth). The amendments secured by ITECA ensure that the Australian Government will no longer be able to impose a permanent ban on the establishment of new Registered … Continued

No plan to reduce climate pollution this decade

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Friday 22nd March Climate organisations respond to Coalition’s nuclear push The adoption of nuclear reactors in Australia is not a climate policy, according to the Climate Council, Australian Conservation Foundation, Solutions for Climate Australia, and more than 40 civil society organisations working to speed up Australia’s response to climate change. In a joint statement, non-government … Continued

Audit Committee expands inquiry into failed privatisation of visa processing

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The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) has expanded an existing inquiry examining the previous government’s failed attempts to privatise the visa processing system and deliver new IT systems in Home Affairs, to examine public sector IT projects more widely. Committee Chair, Mr Julian Hill MP, said that “lessons must be drawn from both stages of the … Continued

Social security boost and tax reform needed in federal budget

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ACOSS acknowledges National Close the Gap Day and urges governments to respond to the calls from First Nations peoples for action to Close the Gap in outcomes for communities and to deliver on Voice, Treaty and Truth.   The federal budget must raise social security payments to provide immediate cost-of-living relief for people who need … Continued

***MEDIA ALERT***

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ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie will hold a media conference on Thursday to release ACOSS’ Budget submission, calling for a JobSeeker boost and tax reform, among other policies.   Millions of people who rent or receive income support will get zero help from any anticipated interest rate relief or the stage three tax cuts, which do … Continued