Hayden Patterson

Hayden Patterson is the founder of the Worldwide Unemployed Workers’ Union and was previously the National President of the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union the ‘Raise the Rate’ Campaign Coordinator for the Anti-Poverty Network SA. He has been actively fighting punitive measures facing unemployed and underemployed Australians such as Work for the Dole, Compulsory Income Management, Mutual Obligations and is campaigning to increase the rate of income support.

Hayden is an adviser on the working and reference groups for the New Employment Services Trial representing the jobseeker experience and voices to the Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business. He is also a PLSA (Positive Life South Australia) representative within the NAPWHA (National Association for People with HIV & AIDS) community.

He is passionate about using his lived experience of homelessness and housing stress to create positive social change so that others with similar experiences can follow their dreams.