Four backbenchers add names to open letter accusing Anthony Albanese of leaving ‘people with the least behind’
Labor backbenchers have joined hundreds of politicians, academics, business leaders and advocates in calling for the Albanese government to substantially increase the jobseeker rate.
“The rate of income support is so low that people are being forced to choose between paying their rent or buying enough food and medicine,” the letter to the prime minister reads. “As a result, people experience chronic mental and physical health issues, they’re forced into homelessness and insecure housing, trapped with abusive partners, and locked out of paid work because they don’t have the money they need to retrain and re-enter the workforce.”
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