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

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

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

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.