Just Some Basic Shit You Can’t Buy With Labor’s $2.85/Day JobSeeker Increase

It’s that time of the year folks — Labor has released its Federal budget and reminded us how much people on Centrelink payments are dehumanised by our governments. Bravo! While the new budget did deliver some big wins for the average Aussie — assistance with soaring electricity bills, cheaper medical prescriptions and a reinstatement of some child payments for single parents, for example — there’s one area it spectacularly failed at addressing: a JobSeeker increase. It’s no secret that the JobSeeker payments people on Centrelink receive are insulting in how little they actually alleviate poverty. In that they don’t. At all. In fact, they actively perpetuate it by keeping people below the poverty line

We asked for a $39/day increase to bring JobSeeker up to the Henderson Poverty Line. While people are starving. While people are taking their lives. We were asking for the bare minimum that people need. Painting this as unreasonable is morally bankrupt & you should be ashamed https://t.co/hTNB7Dzj2x

— jeremy poxon (@JeremyPoxon) May 9, 2023

by at least $128 a week by $40 a fortnightAnthony Albanese

1kg of basmati rice

A 5-pack of Indomie Mi Goreng Instant Noodles

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$2.85 only goes so far I guess #auspol #jobseeker #youthallowance #budget

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Antihistamines

A loaf of bread

A bag of spinach

A box of Weet-Bix

Toilet paper

Labor's jobseeker increase will only make the payments 41% below the poverty line, as opposed to 44%.

Powerful move …

via @GrogsGamut https://t.co/TWohVasKGW pic.twitter.com/M3WNUy9Vye

— Antoun Issa (@antissa) May 10, 2023

A cup of coffee

Nappies

The basic human right to shelter

decrepit studios are going for $500 a week in Sydney putting up rent by the hundreds$31 a fortnight, so $1.12 a dayis catastrophically low

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