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74: Left Behind (Budget 2023 ft. Senator Janet Rice)

Serious Danger

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The Labor Government's Increase to the Age Pension

The Henderson poverty line, which is calculated on the actual cost of things, like groceries and bills for a single person, is $610.60 a week. The budgets increased to job seeker will raise it to $366.45 a week. It costs a minimum of 600 bucks a week for people to feed themselves, keep a roof over their head and pay for essentials. And the Labor government leaves a people on job seeker can somehow ignore this inescapable reality. This isn't doing it tough. This is a level of poverty that kills people.

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