Report finds period poverty is spread across income brackets but affects more Indigenous people and people with disability

Study finds providers making profits off government funding despite falling short on mandatory care targets

Oxfam analysis finds Woolworths, Hancock Prospecting and NAB among companies to rake in much higher profits off the back of crisis conditions

Often nothing left for other necessities or emergencies, Anglicare says, with Centrelink payment levels ‘trapping people in poverty’

Action comes after a Guardian inquiry in April revealed private providers were using extreme methods to retrieve payslips and claim public money

Exclusive: Data reveals that 77 people died before being offered public housing between April 2019 and March this year

Income inequality in ‘unprecedented fall’ thanks to jobkeeper, then ballooned again in 2021, the Productivity Commission says

Announcements are ‘good steps’ to reduce harms caused by employment services system but fall short of the overhaul required, advocates say

Program aims to help create better disability support plans to guide carers and support workers’ response to challenging behaviour

NSW homelessness minister acknowledges program is direct response to housing crisis but says ‘it’s not acceptable this is what we have come to’ for those fleeing domestic violence

Private job providers can claim public money when jobseekers find work. But they need their payslips to do so, and some resort to extreme methods to get them