Senate debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
Motions
Newstart and Youth Allowance
4:10 pm
Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) notes that Newstart is a poverty trap; and
(b) calls on the Federal Government to mark the new decade by immediately increasing the rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance.
Question agreed to.