It's not just Newstart. Single parents are $271 per fortnight worse off. Labor needs an overarching welfare review
- Written by Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Single parents have been made worse off by the Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull governments. It's time to take stock.ShutterstckThirty years after Prime Minister Bob Hawke famously promised that by 1990 no Australian child would live in poverty, Bill Shorten has promised that, if elected, Labor will use a “root and branch...
