Senate debates Motions

Newstart Allowance


Rachel Siewert

Rachel Siewert WA, Australian Greens

4:30 pm

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) Newstart has not had an increase in real terms for 25 years, and

  (ii) Newstart is a poverty trap; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to raise the rate of Newstart immediately.

Question agreed to.

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