Rachel Siewert WA, Australian Greens
12:07 pm
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) recognises that single rates of unemployment payments are completely inadequate to cover basic living costs;
(b) acknowledges that our social safety net currently fails to protect jobseekers from falling into poverty;
(c) notes that:
(i) the Australian Council of Social Service has called for an increase of $75 a week to allowance payments for single people from 1 January 2019, and
(ii) the 2018-19 Budget did not increase any allowance payments, including Newstart or Youth Allowance; and
(d) urges the Federal Government to increase the single rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance by $75 a week.
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