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Say No to Government’s Income Management, Not in Bankstown, Not Anywhere!
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Say No to Government’s Income Management: Not in Bankstown, Not Anywhere!
The Australian Government has announced that Income Management will be coming to Bankstown. A coalition of organisations came together in June 2011 to campaign against this policy.
- Petition to call for a moratorium on Government’s Income Management
- Media release: Call for a moratorium on Income Management following release of damning study or information about the Government’s Income Management - Read the Fact Sheet
- Like us on Facebook!
- Media Release: Forty organisations oppose government's income management in Bankstown
- A full-page open letter appeared in the Bankstown local papers on 27 July 2011, addressed to federal ministers Jenny Macklin and Tanya Plibersek, and local federal MPs for Banks, Blaxland and Watson, voicing community concerns about the impact of such an intervention on people in Bankstown and everywhere else in Australia.
List of Endorsees
- Arab Council Australia Inc
- Association of Bhanin El-Minieh
- Australian Arab Business Network
- Australian Immigrant and Refugee Women's Alliance
- Australian Services Union
- Bankstown Area Multicultural Network
- Bankstown Community Resource Group
- Bankstown Women’s Health Centre
- Cabramatta Community Centre
- CatholicCare
- Combined Pensioners and Superannuants of NSW
- Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, NSW Branch
- Council of Social Service of NSW
- Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation
- Ethnic Child Care Family and Community Services Co-op
- Ethnic Communities Council of NSW
- Finance Sector Union NSW/ACT Branch
- Fairfield Local Aboriginal Access Group
- Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia
- Gandangara Local Aboriginal Council
- Granville Multicultural Community Centre
- Greek Orthodox Community of NSW
- Greenacre Area Neighbourood Centre Inc
- Green Left Weekly
- Immigration Advocacy and Services Network
- Inner South-West Community Development Organisation Ltd
- Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, Research Unit (UTS)
- Lebanese Community Council of NSW
- Lebanese Moslem Association
- Maritime Union of Australia, Sydney Branch
- Metro Migrant Resource Centre
- National Association of Community Legal Centres Inc
- National Tertiary Education Union, NSW
- Network of Immigrant and Refugee Women of Australia Inc
- NSW Nurses Association
- Olivetree Women's Network
- Pacific Island Women Advocate Support Service
- Presentation Sisters Queensland
- Public Service Association NSW
- Reconciliation for Western Sydney
- St Vincent De Paul National Council of Australia
- Sisters of St Joseph SA Reconciliation Circle
- Society of Australian Presentation Sisters' Justice group
- South West Community Legal Centre
- Stop the Intervention Collective
- Tenants Union of NSW
- Tri Community Exchange
- United Muslim Women Association
- United Voice
- UnitingCare NSW.ACT
- Unions NSW
- Welfare Rights Centre, Sydney
- Western Sydney Community Forum
- Western Sydney Regional Information & Research Service (WESTIR)
- Woodville Community Services
- Women's Electoral Lobby (NSW) Inc.
- Working Group for Aboriginal Rights, Canberra
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