Event: How do you change a bad law? |

In the Australian May 2023 budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced an important change to the welfare payment for single parents: recipients could stay on it until their youngest child turned 14, up from the previous cut-off at 8 years old.

The campaign that took place leading up to the budget is a success story of how lived experience, independent research, media attention, and a government-backed task force combined to reform a harmful policy.

Join the conversation with Dr Anne Summers AO (UTS), Laura Tingle (7.30), and Terese Edwards (National Council of Single Mothers and their Children) on how researchers, activists, policymakers, and the community sector can join forces to navigate complex politics to advocate for – and achieve – reform.

This may be an example of a ‘community’ finally working together, instead of in silos, to achieve change.

I’ve registered to find out more, as thus far, there has been no real change for people with dementia globally. No amount of new national Dementia Plans, or Dementia Action Plans, that are not funded for implementation, remain digital reports, and so far, have done nothing to improve the lives of people with dementia. They have however, kept a lot of people without dementia employed…