Cassandra Goldie

Treasurer Scott Frydenberg and Scott Morrison leave after giving a doorstop presser

With Australia now in the worst stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, there couldn't be a worse time to restrict Pandemic Leave Disaster Payments.

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The report was launched today at the National Press Club in Canberra to coincide with Anti-Poverty Week.

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Dr Cassandra Goldie, head of the Australian Council of Social Service, has a PhD in Law from UNSW. At the university she met Professor Peter Saunders, from the Social Policy Research Centre, with whom ACOSS has now partnered to produce landmark reports into poverty.