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Best podcasts about newstart allowance

Latest podcast episodes about newstart allowance

Sunday Nights with Rev. Bill Crews: Highlights
Calls to raise Newstart Allowance

Sunday Nights with Rev. Bill Crews: Highlights

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 6:19


Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe said we had a moral duty to raise the Newstart Allowance.  Rev. Bill Crews chats to former liberal leader, John Hewson about the need to raise Newstart Allowance.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SBS Bangla - এসবিএস বাংলা
Newstart recipients detail daily hardship to Senate inquiry - নিউস্টার্ট ভাতা গ্রহীতাদের বিভিন্ন সমস্যার কথা শুনছে সিনেট তদন্ত কমিটি

SBS Bangla - এসবিএস বাংলা

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2019 3:06


A diabetic South Australian woman has told a Senate inquiry she has to ration her use of insulin due to the financial difficulties of living on unemployment payments. A Senate committee has heard emotional testimony from those living on the government’s unemployment benefit Newstart, which is worth about $40 a day. - সাউথ অস্ট্রেলিয়ার এক ডায়াবেটিক নারী একটি সিনেট তদন্ত কমিটিকে বলেন, কর্মহীন ভাতার ওপর নির্ভর করে তিনি জীবনধারণ করেন। সেজন্য তিনি ইনসুলিনের ব্যবহার কমাতে বাধ্য হয়েছেন। কর্মহীন ব্যক্তিদেরকে নিউস্টার্ট সুবিধা প্রদান করে সরকার। দিন প্রতি প্রায় ৪০ ডলার করে পাওয়া যায়। এতে জীবনধারণ করা যায় কিনা তা নিয়ে সিনেট কমিটিকে আবেগপূর্ণ ভাষায় বর্ণনা করেন কয়েক জন।

SBS Cantonese - SBS广东话节目
參議院聆訊新開始津貼是否「夠用」 - 參議院聆訊新開始津貼是否「夠用」

SBS Cantonese - SBS广东话节目

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2019 4:46


假使有人每日給你 40 澳元,這包含你一切開支如房租、水電煤、互聯網、手機月費...這是否足夠呢? - 假使有人每日給你 40 澳元,這包含你一切開支如房租、水電煤、互聯網、手機月費...這是否足夠呢?

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Alternative News
CICD’s 60th Anniversary and Anti-Poverty Week, 13th – 19th October 2019

Alternative News

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2019


CICD will celebrate its 60th Anniversary - 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more……We'd like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function.There will be number of speakers who will be sharing their memories and activities with CICD, there will be food and drinks and music. Also,The week of October 13th to 19th has been declared Anti-Poverty Week, Bevan Ramsdan and Andrew Fullerton discussed the statistics about social deprivation in Australia.Nationwide there are over 100,000 homeless people. Many people on pensions and the Newstart Allowance are living in poverty, unable to make ends meet or afford adequate dental or medical care.

SBS Dinka - SBS Dinka
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a national roll-out of the cashless debit card - Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a national roll-out of the cashless debit card

SBS Dinka - SBS Dinka

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2019 8:54


Parliament resumes this week, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a national roll-out of the cashless debit card. It comes following a plan to subject some welfare recipients to drug tests. - Parliament resumes this week, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a national roll-out of the cashless debit card. It comes following a plan to subject some welfare recipients to drug tests.

SBS Persian - اس بی اس فارسی
Welfare reforms on the agenda as parliament resumes - دفاع نخست وزیر استرالیا از طرح گرفتن آزمایش اعتیاد از دریافت کنندگان پرداختی های رفاهی

SBS Persian - اس بی اس فارسی

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2019 6:34


Parliament resumes this week, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a national roll-out of the cashless debit card. - همزمان با از سرگیری فعالیت پارلمان فدرال، اسکات موریسون نخست وزیر استرالیا خواستار عرضه یک نوع کارت اعتباری با قابلیت محدود برداشت وجه نقد شده است.

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili
Welfare reforms on the agenda as parliament resumes - Mageuzi ya malipo ya ustawi, yawekwa kwenye ajenda baada ya vikao vya bunge kuanza

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2019 5:14


Parliament resumes this week, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a national roll-out of the cashless debit card. - Bunge lime anza vikao tena wiki hii na waziri mkuu Scott Morrison, anaongoza kampeni yakutumiwa kwa kadi ya malipo nchini kote badala ya hela taslim.

Wednesday Breakfast
Sustainable textiles & the poverty on the rise in Australia

Wednesday Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2019


Wednesday 21st August 2019 DJAB WURRUNG EMBASSY: RED ALERT. More info on this page. The location of top camp is on Djab Wurrung country, opposite Warrayatkin Road on the Western Highway, 10km out of Ararat and 2hr drive from Melbourne/Narrm Hosted by Eiddwen, Jess and Rob  || 3CR is proud to acknowledge the Kulin Nations as true owners and custodians of the lands from which we broadcast. We pay respect to their elders past and present and acknowledge that their sovereignty was never ceded and a treaty has yet to be signed || [28:50] - We talk with Rhianna Knight from TeamTimbuktu about sustainable clothing production. We discuss the current state of clothing production globally, the impact of fast fashion, as well as the movement towards profiling textile workers. More information can be found on the TeamTimbuktu website. [60:48] - The 2019 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey (HILDA) has found that poverty is on the rise in Australia. Professor Roger Wilkins discusses the underlying causes for this change, including the lacking rise in Newstart Allowance. More can be read in his recent article. Music:Capitalism by ToraBeginning To End by Ta-KuSpanish Sahara by Foals

In The Shed with Ando & Clarky
Episode 022 From Crisis to What Crisis? & much more...

In The Shed with Ando & Clarky

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2019 65:53


A short and sharp episode this time round, cover the 102-year anniversary of the 1917 Great Strike, The Newstart Allowance, US I.C.E. Raids and the insanity of Imminent Crisis to What Crisis? Sully the cat & Lady the dog provide their usual impromptu entertainment, oh and Clarky has a new sound effects Toy?

SBS Lao - SBS ພາ​ສາ​ລາວ
ຫ້າມບໍ່ໃຫ້ນັກຕໍ່ສູ້ໃນຕ່າງປະເທດກັບຄືນມາຍັງອອສເຕຼເລັຍ - ຫ້າມບໍ່ໃຫ້ນັກຕໍ່ສູ້ໃນຕ່າງປະເທດກັບ

SBS Lao - SBS ພາ​ສາ​ລາວ

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2019 8:18


ໃນຣະຍະອັນສັ້ນໆຂອງຫ່ວາງນຶ່ງນີ້ ວຽກການງານຫຼາຍສິ່ງຫຼາຍຢ່າງຂອງຣັຖບານອອສເຕຼເລັຍຖຶກຮັບຮູ້ໂດຍສະພາຕ່ຳແລະສູງອອສເຕຼເລັຍແລ້ວ ຮວມດ້ວຍກົດໜາຍຕ້ອງຫ້າມບໍ່ໃຫ້ກັບຄືນມາຍັງອອສເຕຼເລັຍນັກຕໍ່ສູ້ອອສເຕຼເລັຍທີ່ໄປກະທຳເສິກສົງຄວາມຮ່ວມກັບກຳລັງຈໍຣະຈົນຕ່າງໆໃນຕ່າງປະເທດ ແຕ່ບາງສິ່ງບາງຢ່າງກໍຍັງຖຶກແກ້ໄຂບໍ່ຕົກບໍ່ແຕກ ດັ່ງ ອັດຕຼາເບັ້ຍຫ່ວາງງານແລະເບັ້ຽສົງເຂາະສັງຄົມຕ່າງໆ... - ໃນຣະຍະອັນສັ້ນໆຂອງຫ່ວາງນຶ່ງນີ້ ວຽກການງານຫຼາຍສິ່ງຫຼາຍຢ່າງຂອງຣັຖບານອອສເຕຼເລັຍຖຶກຮັບຮູ້ໂດຍສະພາຕ່ຳແລະສູງອອສເຕຼເລັຍແລ້ວ ຮວມດ້ວຍກົດໜາຍຕ້ອງຫ້າມບໍ່ໃຫ້ກັບຄືນມາຍັງອອສເຕຼເລັຍນັກຕໍ່ສູ້ອອສເຕຼເລັຍທີ່ໄປກະທຳເສິກສົງຄວາມຮ່ວມກັບກຳລັງຈໍຣະຈົນຕ່າງໆໃນຕ່າງປະເທດ ແຕ່ບາງສິ່ງບາງຢ່າງກໍຍັງຖຶກແກ້ໄຂບໍ່ຕົກບໍ່ແຕກ ດັ່ງ ອັດຕຼາເບັ້ຍຫ່ວາງງານແລະເບັ້ຽສົງເຂາະສັງຄົມຕ່າງໆ...

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili
Canberra: the week in review 2 August 2019 - Canberra: tathmini ya wiki hii 2 Agosti 2019

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2019 7:56


The final sitting week of parliament before the mid-winter break was dominated by claims of impropriety and corruption. - Vikao vya wiki ya mwisho vya bunge kabla ya mapumziko ya kati ya majira ya baridi, vilitawaliwa kwa madai ya ufisadi na utovu wa nidhamu.

SBS Tibetan - SBS བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན།
Many Newstart recipients are going hungry to survive on $40 a day - ལས་འཚོལ་བ་མང་དག་ཅིག་གཞུང་གི་སྐྱོབ་གསོའི་འོག་ཉིན་རེར་སྒོར་ ༤༠ ཡིས་འཚོ་ཐབས་བྱེད་པ།

SBS Tibetan - SBS བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན།

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2019 7:14


A new survey has revealed many Newstart recipients are sacrificing food and utilities to survive on $40 a day. It comes as pressure increases on the government to raise the rate of the unemployment benefit - རྟོག་ཞིབ་གསར་པ་ཞིག་ལས་གནས་ཚུལ་ཐོན་པར་ལྟར་ན། གཞུང་གིས་ལས་འཚོལ་བ་ལ་གནང་བའི་སྐྱོབ་གསོ་ Newstart ཞེས་པ་དེར་བརྟེན་མཁན་རྣམས་ཉིན་རེར་སྒོར་ ༤༠ ཙམ་གྱིས་འཚོ་ཐུབ་པ་དགོས་པས། ཁོང་ཚོས་དངུལ་དེ་འདང་ངེས་ཡོང་ཆེད་ཉིན་རེའི་ལྟོ་དུས་ཀྱང་བློས་གཏོང་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་ཐོན་འདུག

SBS Burmese - SBS ျမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္
What do Burmese in Australia think of Newstart allowence payment's rate? - Newstart allowence တိုးေပးသင့္မသင့္အေပၚ ျမန္မာေတြ ဘယ္လိုျမင္ၾကလဲ

SBS Burmese - SBS ျမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2019 8:17


How much is the Newstart allowance?People with no dependent children receive $282 a week, or $40 a day, including an energy supplement to reduce the cost of power bills. - Newstart allowance ရဲ့ ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကးက ဘယ္ေလာက္ရွိသလဲ ဆိုတာကို ေလ့လာၾကည့္ရေအာင္။ မွီခိုသူ ကေလးမရွိတဲ့ တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္အတြက္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကးကေတာ့ တစ္ပတ္မွာ ၂၈၂ ေဒၚလာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ပွ်မ္းမွ်အားျဖင့္ တစ္ရက္ကို ေဒၚလာ ၄၀ ႏွုန္းပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

SBS Armenian - SBS Հայերէն
Many Newstart recipients are going hungry to survive on $40 a day - Շատ մը Newstart նպաստ ստացողներ անօթի կը մնան կարենալ ապրելու համար օրական 40 տոլարով

SBS Armenian - SBS Հայերէն

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2019 5:26


A new survey has revealed many Newstart recipients are sacrificing food and utilities to survive on $40 a day. - Մինչ կառավարութեան վրայ ճնշումը կը բարձրանայ աւելցնելու համար անգործութեան նպաստներու գումարները, նոր հետազոտութիւն մը ցոյց կ'ուտայ որ շատ մը Newstart ստացողներ ուտելիքը և անհրաժեշտ սպասարկութիւնները կը զոհեն, կարենալ ապրելու համար օրական 40 տոլարով:

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili
Newstart debate:"It's a shame for people to go hungry in Australia" - Mjadala wa Newstart:"Ni aibu kwa watu kulala njaa nchini Australia"

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2019 17:25


As pressure increases on the government to raise the rate of the unemployment benefit, many new and emerging communities are wondering how people can go hungry in a rich country like Australia. - Wakati shinikizo linaendelea kuongezeka kwa serikali, iongeze kiwango cha mafao hayo yakutokuwa na ajira, wanachama wengi katika jamii mpya nchini, wanashangaa jinsi watu wanaweza lala njaa katika nchi tajiri kama Australia.

australia debate poverty hungry new start watu wakati it's a shame newstart allowance aibu
SBS Khmer - SBS ខ្មែរ
Many Newstart recipients are going hungry to survive on $40 a day - អ្នកដែលពឹងផ្អែក​លើ​ប្រាក់ជំនួយ Newstart មួយ​ចំនួន កំពុងតែដាច់បាយ

SBS Khmer - SBS ខ្មែរ

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2019 7:56


A new survey has revealed many Newstart recipients are sacrificing food and utilities to survive on $40 a day. It comes as pressure increases on the government to raise the rate of the unemployment benefit. - ការស្ទង់មតិថ្មីមួយ​បាន​បើកបង្ហាញ​ឲ្យ​ឃើញថា អ្នក​ដែល​ទទួលប្រាក់​ជំនួយ​សង្គមកិច្ច​ពេល​កំពុងតែ​ស្វែងរកការងារ​ធ្វើ​ហៅថា ប្រាក់ឧបត្ថម្ភ​​ Newstart​នោះ ពេលខ្លះ​ត្រូវ​អត់អាហារ ឬបិទទឹក បិទភ្លើង ដើម្បី​អាច​រស់បាន​ជាមួយ​នឹង​ប្រាក់​៤០ដុល្លារ​ក្នុង​មួយថ្ងៃ។ ការស្ទង់មតិនេះធ្វើឡើងខណៈដែល​មានការ​ដាក់​សម្ពាធ​កាន់តែខ្លាំងឡើង​ៗ​មក​លើ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​អូស្រ្តាលី​ឲ្យ​ដំឡើង​អត្រា​ប្រាក់ជំនួយ​ដល់​អ្នក​ដែល​គ្មាន​ការ​ងារ​ធ្វើ​ទាំង​នេះ។

SBS Burmese - SBS ျမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္
Many Newstart recipients are going hungry to survive on $40 a day - တစ္ရက္ ေဒၚလာ ၄၀ ႏွဳန္းသာ ရၾကတဲ့ Newstart ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကးရရွိသူေတြဟာ အစာငတ္ခံေနၾကရတယ္လို႔ဆို

SBS Burmese - SBS ျမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2019 12:13


A new survey has revealed many Newstart recipients are sacrificing food and utilities to survive on $40 a day.It comes as pressure increases on the government to raise the rate of the unemployment benefit. - စစ္တမ္းတစ္ခုအရ အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ျဖစ္ေနသူေတြကို စင္တာလင့္ကေနတဆင့္ေပးတဲ့ Newstart ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကး ရရွိသူေတြဟာ တျခားအရာေတြ ကာမိေစဖို႔ တခါတေလ အစာငတ္ခံေနၾကရတယ္လို႔ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

SBS Croatian - SBS na hrvatskom
Many Newstart recipients are going hungry to survive on $40 a day - Mnogi primatelji socijalne pomoći jedva preživljavaju s 40 dolara dnevno

SBS Croatian - SBS na hrvatskom

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2019 7:36


A new survey has revealed many Newstart recipients are sacrificing food and utilities to survive on $40 a day. It comes as pressure increases on the government to raise the rate of the unemployment benefit. - Novo istraživanje pokazalo je da si mnogi primatelji naknade Newstart uskraćuju hranu i ne plaćaju režije, a sve kako bi preživjeli s 40 dolara dnevno. Ti podaci, dobiveni anketom, koriste se za pritisak na saveznu vladu da poveća naknade za nezaposlene.

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili
Many Newstart recipients are going hungry to survive on $40 a day - Wapokeaji wengi wa Newstart wana lala njaa, kwa ajili yaku okoa $40 kila siku

SBS Swahili - SBS Swahili

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 8:52


A new survey has revealed many Newstart recipients are sacrificing food and utilities to survive on $40 a day. - Utafiti mpya umepata kuwa watu wengi wanao pokea malipo ya Newstart, wanachagua kuishi bila chakula na huduma zingine, ili waweze mudu maisha kwa dola 40 kila siku.

SBS Amharic - ኤስ.ቢ.ኤስ አማርኛ
በርካታ የሥራ አጥነት ድጎማ ተቀባዮች ኑሮን በ $40 በቀን ለመግፋት ባለመቻላቸው ለረሃብ እየተጋለጡ ነው - በርካታ የሥራ አጥነት ድጎማ ተቀባዮች ኑሮን በ $40 በቀን ለመግፋት ባለመቻላቸው ለረሃብ እየተጋለጡ ነው

SBS Amharic - ኤስ.ቢ.ኤስ አማርኛ

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 6:11


አንድ አዲስ ይፋ የአስተያየት ስብስብ የሥራ አጥነት ድጎማ ተቀባዮች በ40 ዶላር በቀን ድጎማቸውን ለማብቃቃት የምግብ፣ የመብራትና ውኃ አጠቃቀማቸውን እየቀነሱ መሆኑን አመላክቷል።መንግሥት በሥራ አጥነት ድጎማ ላይ ገንዘብ እንዲጨምር የግፊ ጫና እየተደረገበት ነው። - አንድ አዲስ ይፋ የአስተያየት ስብስብ የሥራ አጥነት ድጎማ ተቀባዮች በ40 ዶላር በቀን ድጎማቸውን ለማብቃቃት የምግብ፣ የመብራትና ውኃ አጠቃቀማቸውን እየቀነሱ መሆኑን አመላክቷል።መንግሥት በሥራ አጥነት ድጎማ ላይ ገንዘብ እንዲጨምር የግፊ ጫና እየተደረገበት ነው።

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Tell Me Moore
Episode 6 - the Newstart allowance and Brexit

Tell Me Moore

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 19:14


Listen to learn about the Newstart allowance debate, and why Barnaby Joyce is speaking out about it. I also break down the Brexit vote and how you can expect the UK to change once they leave the European Union.

Perth Indymedia
Pas Forgione on Newstart and the Raise the Rate campaign

Perth Indymedia

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 16:28


Campaign coordinator for the Australian Council of Social Services' Raise the Rate campaign, Pas Forgione, spoke to Alex Whisson about the need to increase the Newstart Allowance, which hasn't been increased in real terms since 1994.

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SBS Dari - اس بی اس دری
More than half of us are concerned with financial constraints - بیش از نیمی از ما با محدودیت های مالی مواجه هستیم

SBS Dari - اس بی اس دری

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2019 6:54


Australia politicians are saying Increasing Newstart would be bad for the federal budget given the current struggles of the Australian economy. - سیاستمداران استرالیا می گویند افزایش نیوتاسارت برای مقابله با مشكل اقتصادى در استرالیا موثر خواهد بود.

SBS Croatian - SBS na hrvatskom
Advocates push to raise unemployment benefit - Jača pritisak na vladu da poveća naknadu za nezaposlene

SBS Croatian - SBS na hrvatskom

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2019 4:44


Unemployed Australians and social welfare advocates are making a renewed push to raise the rate of Newstart. It comes following the government's pledge to cut deeming rates for pensioners. - Nezaposleni Australci i zagovornici socijalnih prava ponovo su pojačali pritisak na vladu da poveća iznos koji nezaposlene osobe primaju u sklopu programa Newstart.Njihovi zahtjevi uslijedili su nakon što je vlada smanjila stope prema kojima se određuje visina mirovine, odnosno deeming rates.

SBS Tibetan - SBS བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན།
Advocates push to raise unemployment benefit - གཞུང་གིས་གནང་བའི་སྐྱོབ་གསོའི་དངུལ་མང་དུ་གཏོང་དགོས་པར་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར།

SBS Tibetan - SBS བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན།

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2019 4:13


Unemployed Australians and social welfare advocates are making a renewed push to raise the rate of Newstart. It comes following the government's pledge to cut deeming rates for pensioners. - ཨོ་སི་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་ནང་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བདེ་འཇགས་ཆེད་རྩོད་ལེན་པ་རྣམས་དང། གཞུང་གི་སྐྱོབ་གསོ་ལ་བརྟེན་མཁན་གྱི་མི་ཚོས། རོགས་དངུལ་མང་དུ་གཏོང་དགོས་པར་རེ་སྐུལ་ཞུ་བཞིན་ཡོད་འདུག

SBS Somali - SBS Afomali
Push to raise the rate of Newstart - Push to raise the rate of Newstart

SBS Somali - SBS Afomali

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2019 5:11


Dadaal lagu doonayo in la kordhiyo lacagta cayrta ee la siiyo dadka shaqodoonka ah. - Dadaal lagu doonayo in la kordhiyo lacagta cayrta ee la siiyo dadka shaqodoonka ah.

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SBS Hakha Chin - SBS Hakha Chin
Advocates push to raise unemployment benefit - Riantuanlo Mi Tangka Bawmhnak Kai Ter Dingin Ai-awhtu Nih An Hal

SBS Hakha Chin - SBS Hakha Chin

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019 5:26


Unemployed Australians and social welfare advocates are making a renewed push to raise the rate of Newstart. - Rian kawlmi bawmhnak (newstart) tangka cu an pekmi zat kai ter dingin zapi harsa mi rian bawmtu nih halnak an tuah tiah theih a si. Asile tamdeuh in hun ngai hna usih.

Stick Together
RAFFWU Delegate experience

Stick Together

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2018


First up a word with a delegate for the newest Union the Retail and Fast Food Workers' Union and then we go to Adelaide to an Anti-Poverty Week event, where Council candidates from 11 Councils – including a Lord Mayoral candidate – came together with a clear message: local governments should advocate for their residents who are out of work and living in poverty, by adding their voices to the campaign to raise Newstart Allowance. 

Stick Together
Stop the TPP - Labor's Capitulation

Stick Together

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2018


This week we speak with Allen Hicks, the National Secretary of the ETU about the Labor party's decision to join with the Liberals and pass the legislation required to enable the TPP. Allen talks about the union's concerns about the TPP's content and the ALP's decision to wave it though. We also speak with CFMMEU official, Kevin Harkins about the Chinese plasterers at Hobart hospital who walked off the job recently after receiving no wages for several weeks. As always, we bring you a weekly wrap of union news. This week we report on the widespread arrest and detention of workers at the Istanbul airport site, the pathetic increase to the Newstart Allowance and the report by the Senate Committee into the future of work.