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Greens spokesperson for social services senatorsays speculation Labor may increase the social security payments by $40 a fortnight is a “slap in the face” to those doing it tough.In a statement released on Sunday, Rice said that “if reports today are true” it meant “Labor is doing even less to help welfare recipients than the Conservative party” despite attacking the Morrison government in opposition for its own small increases.
The last time a Labor government increased the base rate of unemployment benefits was in 1994 under Keating. They’ve done nothing for decades, and now all they’re offering is to tinker around the edges of a system that’s killing people. Poverty is a policy choice, and this government is doubling down on their choice to leave people without heating or food or medicines as they struggle to pay the rent.
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