Stereotypical views of homelessness are shaken by four very different stories shared this week by people who have experienced homelessness.

Consumer representatives from across the nation tell Energy Ministers to lift their game on the national energy consumer law or put more Australians at risk of being cut-off from electricity and gas.

The NSW Department of Transport and Infrastructure has been named alongside two of NSW’s largest taxi networks in a disability discrimination claim lodged with the Federal Court. 

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) welcomes the introduction of a single national consumer law.

Kevin Simpson and Veronica Penna, two members of the homeless advisory group, Street Care, have been appointed to the NSW Premier’s Advisory Council on Homelessness.

Community legal centres are calling on the Federal Government to acknowledge international Human Rights Day (December 10) by agreeing to introduce a Human Rights Act for Australia.

Reparations for Australia’s stolen generations are a matter of ‘unfinished business’, says the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mr Tom Calma.