Australians on unemployment benefits are set for two record paydays – but it's a sign of a broken system, long overdue for a fix
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Julian Smith/AAPAustralians on our humiliatingly-low unemployment benefit are about to get their biggest payday ever.
On September 20, the single rate of JobSeeker will climb A$25.70 per fortnight from $642.70 to $668.40. That’s the biggest automatic increase since the payment began at the turn of the 1990s, and twice as big as the...
