Budget Slams Working Poor Costello fifth budget has little in the way of assistance for the unemployed and working poor said Bill Yeats for the unemployed workers group StandUp! last night.   Costellos budget ignores  63 % of the population who earn less than the $54,000 tax reform threshold and unemployed people do not feature at all, with no CPI adjustments to unemployment assistance for the Xth year in a row.

WFD at Lidcombe TAFE Work for the dole providor H and H is utilising unemployed to carry out slave labour at Lidcombe TAFE. The work offered is hardly light. Unemployed are 'offered' carpentry, painting, tiling and landscaping. Hard labour for ten dollars per week on top of dole payments.

Koorie / Youth Work For Dole forced labour scandal! Work for Dole being used as cheap labour by TAFE's and local Government. Stolen Wages scandal - Mk II being perpetrated on another generation of Koorie and youth with government using mass WFD rather than commit to real jobs!.

Waynes Story ...of course CentreLink demanded an interview to ascertain the facts. This is understandable. But the issue that more than concerns but angers Wayne was one of the questions which they wanted to ask him "When did you last have sex together." Wayne thinks this is intrusive, offensive, and should be none of the department's business. We agree!

StandUp! Needs You! StandUp! is an organisation of unemployed and social security activists dedicated to defending the social security system and fighting for the right for everyone to have a decent livelihood.   We campaign against work tests, private job network agencies, cutbacks in government spending and against work for the dole. Our members are volunteers.