The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses
- Written by Cassandra Goldie, Adjunct Professor and UNSW Law Advisory Council Member, UNSW Sydney
Victoria Labadie/ShutterstockThe government says the budget will help people doing it tough. But it has also opted not to increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance, despite expert advice these payments should be the highest priority in a cost-of-living crisis.
At the same time, monetary policy is driving up unemployment to cut inflation, which is...
