Coalition continues to beat-up unemployed

Sunday 23 October 2016

The Turnbull Government has flagged that it will tighten the eligibility criteria for the 760,000 people receiving unemployment benefits. From The Australian:

Sanctions will be toughened and “high expectations” will be set to require Newstart recipients to prove they are looking for work, under a joint effort by three ministers to fix the welfare system.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.