A Shorten\u00a0Labor\u00a0Government will provide $40 million over four years to emergency relief organisations across the country, including over half a million dollars for organisations in Newcastle.
\nThis election is a choice between a Shorten\u00a0Labor\u00a0Government supporting people doing it tough, or bigger tax loopholes for the top end of town under the Liberals.
\nThe Morrison Government is cutting the funding for many emergency relief services at the end of the year.
\nLabor\u00a0will reverse these cuts and provide a much-needed funding boost to the sector.
\nIn Newcastle this will mean\u202fLabor\u202fwill deliver an extra\u00a0$491,000 to the Samaritans Foundation for emergency relief services over the next four years.
\nLabor\u00a0will also restore the $73,000 that the Liberals cut from emergency relief funding for\u00a0Muloobinba\u00a0Aboriginal Corporation.
\nWithout this funding\u00a0Muloobinba\u00a0Aboriginal Corporation will no longer be able to provide emergency relief to First Nations families in need.
\nThese services provide support to vulnerable people who have nowhere else to turn by providing food hampers, funding for fuel to attend specialist medical appointments and other financial assistance.
\nThe charities and not-for-profits that do this important work are increasingly stretched and need more resources.
\nA Shorten\u202fLabor\u202fGovernment will\u202falso\u202fsupport Australians in financial hardship by:<\/p>\n
Many\u202fvulnerable\u202fAustralians are falling through the cracks.\u202fLabor\u202fwill make sure our charities\u202fand not-for-profits\u202fhave the resources they need to support our fellow Australians. A Shorten\u00a0Labor\u00a0Government will provide $40 million over four years to emergency relief organisations across the country, including over half a million dollars for organisations in Newcastle. This election is a choice between a Shorten\u00a0Labor\u00a0Government supporting people doing it tough, or bigger tax loopholes for the top end of town under the Liberals. The Morrison Government … Continue reading “LABOR WILL SUPPORT PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN NEWCASTLE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFEDERAL MEMBER FOR NEWCASTLE<\/strong>\u00a0SHARON CLAYDON SAID:<\/strong>
\n\u201cI have met too many families in our community who are in crisis and in need of a helping hand. The Morrison Government\u2019s cruel cuts put services that support vulnerable people at risk.
\n\u201cThe\u00a0Muloobinba\u00a0Aboriginal Corporation and the Samaritans Foundation of Newcastle provide essential services to our community. Only\u00a0Labor\u00a0can make sure they\u2019re properly funded to keep doing this important work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"