Labor fails to commit to immediate Newstart raise
Posted on: Fri 21 Dec 2018
A motion put forward at the ALP National Conference failed to commit to an increase to Newstart and instead promised an 18 month review into the payment.
Claudia Ienco, State Co-coordinator for Anti-Poverty Network South Australia was at the conference along with many others from the network and describes her reaction to the result of the motion when it came through.
Produced by Lisa Burns
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