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Fri Sep 20

It's Newstart pay rise day. You're in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts

Written by Peter Martin., Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

The extra 24 cents per day can buy an extra 36 peanuts per day, more if you buy in bulk.Shutterstock

Newstart recipients and other Australians on benefits get their half-yearly pay rise today (and also on March 20). This one is vanishingly small.

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Little Succers’ festive wreaths and creative workshops

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