'You just hibernate': The struggle of living on Newstart’s $39 a day

The Newstart allowance is $39 a day but the Greens are about to revive their campaign to raise the welfare payment.

Source: AAP

Published 18 October 2018 11:53am

Updated 12 August 2022 3:40pm

By Mehdi Gholizadeh, Myles Morgan

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