Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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.