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Are most people on the Newstart unemployment benefit for a short or long time?

  • Written by Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
imageMost of those receiving the $40 per day have been doing it for a long time.Shutterstock

Since parliament has resumed three Liberal members - Dean Smith, Russell Broadbent and Andrew Wallace - have joined a group of Nationals calling for an increase in the A$40 per day Newstart unemployment allowance.

Labor has already committed itself to both an inq...

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