Increase Newstart to $400 week: Labor MP

By Rebecca Gredley
Updated July 17 2019 - 9:13am, first published 9:08am
There are calls for the Newstart allowance to be increased by more than $100 a week.
There are calls for the Newstart allowance to be increased by more than $100 a week.

Newstart should be increased by more than $100 a week to stop people being pushed into poverty, a federal Labor MP has argued.

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