Senate debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Motions

Newstart and Youth Allowance

4:10 pm

Photo of Rachel SiewertRachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that Newstart is a poverty trap; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to mark the new decade by immediately increasing the rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance.

Question agreed to.