Income Links
Categories:
Consumer and finance
Income support
Poverty and social disadvantage
Gambling
Consumer and finance
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The FIDO site offers finance tips for young people.
B4 You
Splash Cash
This site by the South Australian Office of Consumer and Business Affairs contains a
fabulous links page, as well as information about shopping, renting, managing money,
buying a car and what to do when things go wrong. There are also budget and loans
calculators - very handy!
Money Stuff
This site, created by the New South Wales Office of Fair Trading, offers financial
information for young people on buying cars, computers and mobile phones as well as
information about renting and credit cards.
Income support
Centrelink
Centrelink delivers services, programs and payments for Australian government departments.
Department of Family and Community Services
Information on allowances and payments.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Information on Youth Allowance, Austudy and Abstudy
Poverty and social disadvantage
The following agencies provide services to disadvantaged members of the community, including young people, as well as conduct research into social disadvantage.
Anglicare Australia
Anglicare SA
Centacare
Mission Australia
UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide
Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide
The
Salvation Army
Australian Council of Social Service
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is the national peak council of the
community welfare sector in Australia - the principal voice of low income and
disadvantaged people in social and economic policy matters.
South Australian Council of Social Service
SACOSS is the peak body for social services in South Australia. SACOSS is a not-for-profit
independent organisation and its members represent a wide range of interests in social
welfare, health and community services. SACOSS works towards the elimination of poverty
and discrimination, a just and equitable distribution of resources and improved services
to support individuals and families.
National Welfare Rights Network
The purpose of the NWRN is to assist welfare rights services throughout
Australia to reduce poverty, hardship and inequality in Australia.
The Department of the Parliamentary Library
This site contains the report The Poor in Australia: Who are they, and how many are there? plus handy links.
Young Lives
This is an English site dedicated to the study of child poverty globally.
Gambling
Gamblers
Anonymous
GA is a free self-help support
group organisation for people with a gambling problem who desire to stop
gambling, based on abstinence.
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