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The Opposition has shifted-up a gear in its application of pre-Budget pressure on Human Services Minister Senator Marise Payne, bringing in a raft of welfare, charity and consumer law groups to detail their current problems with the massive Department of Human Services and its payments systems ahead of a massive $1 billion core technology overhaul.

Community legal centres around Australia will no longer have their budgets slashed by $25.5 million over the next two years, federal Attorney General George Brandis announced last week in a reversal of cuts handed down in the 2014 budget.

The case of Melissa Dunn, an Indigenous teenage girl violently arrested in 2012, shows why NSW needs a better approach to police complaints

Short of cash? Can't get a credit card? Can't get a bank loan? If you believe the ads from a new breed of short-term lenders you simply head for your local pawnshop, or even the internet, borrow the cash and move on. Photo: ABC website.

Community Legal Centres in NSW today held a crisis meeting to discuss how to stop their centres across New South Wales from closing on July 1 this year.

Watch the story of Melissa Dunn and her treatment by the NSW Police Force on the ABC website. March 2015 - ABC 7:30 Report

The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/03/23/more-fed-funds-to-tac... The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/03/23/more-fed-funds-to-tac... The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/03/23/more-fed-funds-to-tac...

20 March 2015

Struggling single mum Rebecca Warfield saved money on cheap haircuts at a hairdressing college in Sydney.

The ocean views and high incomes of the eastern suburbs hide a shocking domestic violence epidemic with eight women falling victim every day.