Jay Coonan Interview - Mutual Obligations and Cyclone Alfred

Monday, 10 March 2025 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

Breadline, the show by welfare recipients for us. This episode first aired on Monday 10 March 2025, with presenters Jessica Harrison, Daryl McDonald and Kaitlyn Blythe speaking to guest Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre.

The team discussed the ongoing problems with mutual obligations, Services Australia's testimony in the Senate Estimates hearing regarding the ten deaths of welfare recipients following their payments being illegally cancelled, and the welfare recipients up north being forced to continue mutual obligations requirements while prepping for Cyclone Alfred.

Breadline is recorded and podcasted on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, and we pay respects to Elders past and present.

Breadline airs on 3CR 855AM every Monday at 6.30pm and is presented by the Australian Unemployed Workers Union

Monday 6:00pm to 6:30pm
By the unemployed for the unemployed. Australian Unemployed Workers Union members will cover the latest inequities of the "welfare" system and how we are organising to fight back!

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