Living below the poverty line forces people to choose between things such as safety, food, healthcare costs, housing costs, utilities. Keeping this payment so low harks back to the deserving and undeserving, and the things that are unaffordable are basic human rights.
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Peter Whiteford
Despite recent increases, JobSeeker still leaves people below the poverty line. Here’s why that affects us all
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I expect it from Dutton.
Yet we get it from Albanese.
Honestly the worst PM I have seen in all my GenX voting years.
Absolutely woeful.
A tool used for social blackmail.
The implicit threat is to shut up or unemployed poverty will become homeless poverty.