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From JobSeeker to rent assistance and the single parenting payment: The budget's Centrelink changes explained

Millions of people receiving Centrelink payments such as JobSeeker and rent assistance will see a boost after the federal budget goes through. Learn about what it means for you here.

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Now it's Labor promising the budget will be (briefly) back in black

Tuesday’s budget will forecast a surplus of about $4 billion for this financial year – the first Commonwealth budget surplus in a decade and a half.

The Conversation

ParentsNext has finally been axed but it remains to be seen if other punitive programs will be abolished

Its abolition was long overdue and the Albanese government is to be commended for heeding the calls of experts and advocates

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Controversial parenting welfare obligations scrapped

The government will scrap a controversial parenting welfare program and immediately suspend compulsory obligations it says are punitive.

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Dan Andrews slams ‘hateful’ anti-drag protesters

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews condemns protesters against a drag storytime event for ‘bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia’, and the Albanese government scraps the Coalition’s ‘punitive’ ParentsNext program.

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Morning Mail: Australia’s $60m-a-day debt interest, Ed Sheeran wins, Proud Boys convicted

Albanese government blames Coalition for leaving a ‘mess’ behind; and singer cleared of copying Marvin Gaye classic

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Federal government to scrap 'polarising' ParentsNext welfare scheme in next week's budget

A series of parliamentary inquiries found the mutual obligations element of the program to be punitive and "akin to coercive control".

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Labor to scrap Coalition’s ‘punitive’ ParentsNext scheme from next year

Albanese government says mutual obligations under the widely criticised program will end immediately

The Guardian - AU

Controversial ParentsNext program to be scrapped next year

The Conversation

Albanese government urged to increase rent assistance and childcare workers’ pay in budget

Labor downplays delivering on women’s taskforce wishlist all at once but promises to ‘build upon’ investments in future budgets

The Guardian - AU

Hopes rise for single parent payment increase as Labor aims to ‘support the most vulnerable’ in budget

Finance minister Katy Gallagher says government working through reports that recommend eligibility changes to payment

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Australia’s welfare system puts disadvantaged at risk, inquiry told

Mutual obligation system subjects some participants to ‘punitive conditions’, commonwealth ombudsman says

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YWCA welcomes report to scrap ParentsNext program

YWCA Canberra CEO slammed the program for putting parents under surveillance.

The Canberra Times

ParentsNext welfare scheme ‘does too much harm’ and should be replaced, inquiry finds

Parliamentary panel calls for sweeping changes to Coalition’s $484m program including easing harshest compliance requirements

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Friday essay: parents of 9-month-old babies as 'workers in waiting'? How ParentsNext monitors single mothers

For the first two months of Svetlana’s daughter’s life, the pair couch-surfed and lived on the streets. Granted public housing, Svetlana then worked to “stabilise” herself and slowly form “new ties”. A “former addict”, she had been “clean and sober for six years”.

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Inquiry grills Workforce Australia agencies on ‘bonkers’ reporting requirements for parental welfare

Committee hears ParentNext program is ‘punitive and prescriptive’, with threats of payment suspensions ‘significantly detrimental’ for families

The Guardian - AU

ParentsNext welfare program an ‘absolute scandal’, women’s advocates tell inquiry

One woman’s payments were suspended for not attending a compulsory activity while her son was in hospital, peak body says

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Morning mail: childcare strike, consent warning for films, fears for Australian in Baghdad jail

Wednesday: Tens of thousands of families across the country will be affected by early childhood workers striking for better pay and conditions. Plus: the invention that makes hydrogen from humid air

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The Guardian - AU

Single mother says she had to miss paid work to attend ParentsNext appointment

Woman says job agency administering program also asked her to attend face-to-face meeting after major surgery

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Job agencies running ParentsNext scheme made invalid claims for taxpayer-funded bonuses, audit finds

Noncompliant claims widespread across the $110m-a-year scheme, part of the federal government’s welfare-to-work system

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‘It felt insulting’: welfare recipients sent to body language courses as job agencies profit

Providers in the welfare-to-work system are making lucrative earnings by enrolling clients into their own taxpayer-funded programs

ABC News

Former drug addict who turned her life around now working as counsellor in Mackay

A former drug addict who turned her life around says the trauma which plagued her past is what makes her a more compassionate, empathetic and successful counsellor.

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