I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes the Budget Priorities Statement 2018-19 of the Australian Council of Social Service launched this week in Canberra;

(b) recognises that research, from 2017, shows that single rates of unemployment payments are completely inadequate to cover basic living costs;

(c) acknowledges that our social safety net currently fails to protect those seeking work from falling into poverty;

(d) notes that the Australian Council of Social Service calls for an increase of $75 a week to allowance payments for single people from 1 January 2019; and

(e) urges the Federal Government to increase the single rate of Newstart and related allowances by $75 a week.

Notice of motion altered on 14 February 2018 pursuant to standing order 77.