WRITERS FROM THE ANTIPOVERTY CENTRE - COMMISSIONED POSTS

The experts on poverty, disadvantage and unemployment are the people who live it. The Antipoverty Centre is an unfunded organisation run by people who rely on social security payments to live, working to put the voices and rights of people living in poverty at the centre of social policy development and discourse. You can follow the Centre’s work on its website, and on Twitter (@antipovertycent), Facebook and YouTube.

The Antipoverty Centre is part of Power to Persuade’s volunteer team of moderators, and raises funds independently to pay people on low incomes to write posts for their moderating weeks. The link to donate to the Centre’s dedicated writers’ fund is here.

Posts commissioned by the Antipoverty Centre are published on the blog and collated below.

2024

They Lie by Robyn Hansen

Crowing about a budget surplus? There are better ways for Chalmers to measure economic success - Kerry Beake

We need a more humane budget - now more than ever - Fi G

"The money just simply does not stretch": living on Jobseeker as rent, energy and food costs soar - Anonymous

2023

The state’s perfect partner - Tabitha Lean

The Partner Test: How Being in a Relationship Can Be a Welfare Recipient's Worst Nightmare - Robert

Just stay positive - Melissa Fisher

Crisis at Services Australia is no accident – to fix it politicians must abandon prejudice - Jay Coonan

Rethinking Income Limits for Disability Pension Recipients - Brandon Maki