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Living Incomes For Everyone (LIFE) is a national network of organisations and individuals. We are organising and supporting grass roots action for our demands. We encourage people to join a broad movement to win an adequate income for everyone, to have a home, food and the other necessities for an adequate standard of living. We demand:

1. Keep the Rate!
· NO cuts to JobSeeker and JobKeeper payments.
· JobKeeper direct to workers.

2. No-One Left Behind!
· Raise all other allowance payments and pensions (Aged Pension, Disability Support Pension, Youth Allowance and Carers Pension) to a minimum $1100 per fortnight.
· Extend the JobSeeker and JobKeeper allowances to recent migrants, asylum seekers, overseas workers and international students.
· Increase the minimum wage.
· Keep free early childhood education and care.

3. End Harassment! For Social Security with Dignity.
· Abolish Mutual Obligation. End all Work for the Dole and the Community Development Program (remote Work for the Dole), and forced income management provisions such as the Cashless Welfare Card and Basics Card.
· No return to Robodebts.
· Stop harassment by dodgy Job Providers.
· Public ownership and control of Social Security and Employment Services.

4. Secure homes for everyone.
· Extend and expand the eviction ban, ban repossessions and provide rent and mortgage amnesty for the length of the pandemic.
· Forgiveness of all rental/mortgage debts accrued due to the impacts of the pandemic.
· Empty dwellings and vacant hotel rooms to be decontaminated and made available to homeless and displaced people.
· All those on the waitlist for State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing (SOMIH) to be housed.
· Massive new investment in public housing and an end to further investment in “community housing”.

[updated 3 September 2020 – addition of demand 4, asylum seekers, early childhood education, and end all work for the dole]

2 thoughts on “Who are we? What are our demands?

  1. Last night Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action unanimously endorsed your campaign.
    Although our group’s focus is on climate action, common human compassion demands that we support your cause.

    1. Thankyou for your endorsement. Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action is now listed on our website as an endorsing organisation, and we have posted a request on our Facebook page to our supporters to ask them to sign your petition.

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