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Jobseeker increase would raise 840,000 children in Australia out of poverty: Anglicare

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The Centrelink office at Prahran in Melbourne Source: AAP / JAMES ROSS/AAPIMAGE

There are calls to increase the Jobseeker payment, as Australia grapples with a cost of living crisis. The latest report by not-for-profit charity Anglicare Australia has found increasing the unemployment payment to $88 a day would help lift more than two million Australians out of poverty.


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There are calls to increase the Jobseeker payment, as Australia grapples with a cost of living crisis. The latest report by not-for-profit charity Anglicare Australia has found increasing the unemployment payment to $88 a day would help lift more than two million Australians out of poverty.



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