Senate debates Questions without Notice

Newstart Allowance


Tim Ayres

Tim Ayres NSW, Australian Labor Party

2:03 pm

In an article entitled 'Nats defy PM over Newstart increase', it is revealed that last Monday, National MPs requested the party's parliamentary policy committee review the economic impact of raising Newstart. Has the government undertaken any economic modelling of the economic impact of raising Newstart? If so, will the minister undertake to provide it to her coalition colleagues?

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