Just over two weeks before the federal budget,the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged the government to provide more help to those struggling the most.
Even on the average rental household income of $103,805 a year,more and more people are struggling to find an affordable rental in the current market.
Of the top 10 communities to receive assistance,seven are in federal electorates held by either the LNP,the Nationals or the Liberal Party.
The major political parties revealed different plans to help job seekers this week. Economists say reducing disincentives to work should be key.
Labor’s full caucus took time out of a busy parliamentary session to watch Mary Doyle explain how her pathway to the nation’s capital had been “riddled with challenges”.
Energy assistance will be a major component of the package and will offer households on low incomes several hundred dollars to help pay their bills.
The treasurer said the stronger outlook would include “upward revisions to surplus” before he corrected himself.
The budget will include a suite of measures to make life easier for people doing it tough,but the treasurer’s narrative keeps being interrupted by other plot lines.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,who’s always telling us how hard he and his pensioner mother did it,has a moral imperative to ease the burden of the jobless.
If Labor continues to assert it will always seek to help the most vulnerable,then at some point it must do so,or come up with a different description of itself.
Eleven years after Julia Gillard wound the cut-off age for the youngest child for the single parent payment from 16 to eight,the government is planning to raise it.