Newstart in a sentence

Days before the government released its stimulus package, Goldie for an enduring rise to Newstart of $95 a week: “A Newstart increase of $95 a week would deliver a $4 billion boost to the economy and generate thousands of jobs.

For most of her adult life, she’s lived on less than $550 per week (Newstart’s threshold), yet she manages to remain an active, engaged member of the community.

The government might do well to double Centrelink and Newstart payments to recipients until further notice.

When speaking with Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce (a long running supporter of increasing the base rate of JobSeeker/Newstart) he said abattoirs and motels in particular are having difficulties finding staff.

Brotherhood of St Laurence executive director Conny Lenneberg said there was an“urgent need” to raise the Newstart Allowance and to increase subsidised social housing.

Business leaders have also called for an increase to Newstart payments, saying it would boost the economy but Mr Morrison said the Coalition's new tax package would do that.

Coalition puts surplus before Newstart rise’, by Phillip Coorey.

For a single person receiving the base rate of Newstart allowance with no children, this fee would amount to about 12% of their fortnightly income.

How long do people stay on Newstart?

If there were a Letter of the Year, I would nominate Claire Thomas' powerful and moving account of her time on Newstart (Letters, 13/9).

It’s two days after Lisa Carberry’s fortnightly Newstart payments went into her bank account and she is already down to her last $10.

Megan Young received Newstart allowance in 2010 after she was made redundant.

Ms Payne, who has worked for former Labor leader Bill Shorten and former party minister Jenny Macklin, also used her first speech to urge for an increase to Newstart.

Newstart has not been increased in real terms since 1994.

Newstart is tied to inflation, not wages, which means the benefit does not keep pace with other government payments like pensions.

No rental properties in Australian capital cities are affordable for single people on Newstart, Anglicare has found.

On income inequality, he will pledge a $75 increase in the Newstart allowance for 907,000 people, a contrast with the Labor policy of reviewing the payment without committing to an increase.

Researchers said the trend was likely caused by the “tightening of the screws” of the welfare system, which has seen many Australians moved off higher pension benefits and on to the Newstart allowance.

Tax cuts and an expected return to surplus have marked last night's 2019 federal budget launch, while critics have pointed out significant gaps in foreign aid, ABC funding, Newstart and wages growth.

The 200,000 Australians with a disability living on Newstart payments - after being kicked off the higher level of welfare payment through the Coalition government's reforms - are struggling to make ends meet, a new report says.