Backbench turns on cruel ScoMo over Newstart

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Via the AFR:

Pressure is building within the government over the inadequacy of the Newstart payment after a majority of the Nationals backed an increase, while Liberal senator Dean Smith also broke ranks.

With Prime Minister Scott Morrison adamant there would be no above-inflation increase to the unemployment benefit, the Nationals discussed the issue at their party room meeting on Monday.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.