Newstart is currently just $38 a day \u2013 and it hasn\u2019t changed since 1994. People are living in poverty and this has to change.
\nThe fact is people don\u2019t want to be on Newstart that want work. People seeking work deserve to be supported adequately, and living in poverty\u00a0 is a barrier to work. Those seeking work should be able to afford the essentials, the current payment of less than $40 a day doesn\u2019t cover that.
\nIt\u2019s disappointing that both major parties are refusing to budge in this space when people are clearly living in poverty.
\nThe Government and the Labor party need to find the political will and exercise some compassion and common sense. It is accepted by all major stakeholders that the payment is too low and that needs to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Newstart is currently just $38 a day \u2013 and it hasn\u2019t changed since 1994. People are living in poverty and this has to change. The fact is people don\u2019t want to be on Newstart that want work. People seeking work deserve to be supported adequately, and living in poverty\u00a0 is a barrier to work. Those … Continue reading “Greens Call for Newstart Increase”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}