Calls to increase Jobseeker payment to decrease poverty in Australia: SBS Sinhala current affair on 02 Feb

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

Listen to the SBS Sinhala radio current affair feature on calls for lifting jobseeker payment to lift millions of Australian out of poverty

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Highlights

• 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.