Space at the Albany Youth Support Association centre may be increasing twofold, with the donation of a sea container and an election promise of a new donga office allowing better program delivery.
Melissa Sheil
The head of WA’s oldest women’s crisis refuge Nardine would ‘knock it down and start all over again’ if she had her way.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A “unique” community hub that provides a space for mental health support has received vital ongoing funding, ensuring its doors will be kept open for the foreseeable future.
Violent men are using everyday items including teddy bears, pot plants, prams and cars to keep tabs on their victims in a bid to extend their terror.
Australians are getting money from the government faster and spending less time on the phone or in waiting rooms, fresh data reveals.
Katina Curtis
WA is seeing a new wave of battlers — people earning more than $100,000 annually who struggle to pay bills and seek help from community agencies.
Joe Spagnolo
Imagine turning up at a hotel and instead of handing over your driver’s licence to be photocopied and kept who-knows-where, you can scan a QR code and have your identity verified securely online.
Australia’s most vulnerable are taking the longest to receive welfare payments despite Services Australia claiming they had ‘turned the corner’ on wait times.
Jessica Evensen
The services supposed to help people find jobs are not working for employers or jobseekers, are overly punitive and need a complete rebuild, a major review has told the Government.
A Federal Government program offering free NBN to disadvantaged school students has been extended for an extra year with a $4.3 million funding boost.
Kimberley Caines
People with disabilities have called for urgent action in response to a landmark examination of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation that will be made public on Friday.
Acquisitions have paid dividends for APM shareholders as the workplace services provider posted a 7 per cent jump in profit in the year to June.
Jordan Murray
The deal would have led to more than 167,000 Australians on British pensions having their payments rise but the UK minister is adamant his Government’s policy will not change.
Scott Morrison is under increasing pressure to quit, including from some from his own party, as the Government says it expects the sealed section of the robodebt royal commission to be made public eventually.
Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy
An ageing Subiaco office building is being refurbished as a place for people aged 16-24 experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviours to stay for up to four nights.
Sarah Makse
For some Australians, putting a price tag on love can mean losing a third of your income, obliterating savings, and retiring with no superannuation.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
The new work in the UK is worth $720m over five years but the company also revealed ongoing labour shortages are holding back profit growth.
Sean Smith
The easiest way to characterise the Albanese Government’s second Budget is that it is about people rather than things.
Josh Zimmerman
The documents released on Tuesday night look much more like a traditional Labor Budget than those Jim Chalmers handed down in October — with an added surplus bonus to address the economic management doubters.
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