UN Monitors for Federal Parliament Question Single Parent Welfare Cuts
Monday 4 March 2013 @ 10.26 a.m. | Taxation
United Nations human rights monitors have asked the Federal Government to justify its decision to cut welfare payments to single parents, in an article reported on abc news.
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) says Australian welfare groups took their case to the UN in October last year after exhausting all options in Australia.
"There was no court that we could go to in Australia and so we went to the United Nations to raise our concerns." ACOSS Chief Executive says.
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