Two weeks ago, Labor stated that it would not commit to increasing the $46 a day JobSeeker payment and axed its planned review of the unemployment benefit if it won the upcoming federal election:
The policy position, confirmed by shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh in an Australian Council of Social Service forum on Tuesday, has left welfare groups “deeply disappointed.”
Dr Leigh told the forum while he accepted it would be “a challenge” to live on the $46 a day Jobseeker, Labor was examining a broader range of policies to ease cost of living pressures for poorer Australians.
