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The poor need more say in society | Green Left Weekly

25.11.17

The poor need more say in society | Green Left Weekly: [Green Left Weekly’s Renfrey Clarke spoke to Forgione.] Our conferences are among the largest Anti-Poverty Week events in the country, and they’re the only ones organised by poor people themselves. For us, this is critical — the fightback against government cuts to the welfare system must be led by those in the firing line: by unemployed people, pensioners, sole parents, carers, students, and others who rely on government payments.

At the conference we looked at the Community Development Program, the turbocharged version of Work For The Dole that runs in remote Aboriginal communities. Another big session explored South Australia’s skyrocketing electricity prices, exposing their sources in privatisation and energy company price-gouging. We examined the sell-off of public housing, and the exploitation of the unemployed by job agencies. Other issues addressed were the PaTH youth "internships", single parents and poverty, squatting, and mental health and poverty.


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