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The Guardian
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Some workplaces are clearly unsafe, or the boss is a wage thief, or the job is cruel or unethical
After years of sustained campaigning by anti-poverty activists to “raise the rate” of Australia’s dole payment, the employment minister, Michaelia Cash, announced a suite of changes to the jobseeker unemployment allowance. For a start, the payment will be cut.
Cash and her Liberal-National cohorts are claiming the cut is actually an increase, given that before a special coronavirus supplement doubled the rate, the dole was even less, and hadn’t been raised in 20 years.
The Guardian
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.
.
.
Some workplaces are clearly unsafe, or the boss is a wage thief, or the job is cruel or unethical
After years of sustained campaigning by anti-poverty activists to “raise the rate” of Australia’s dole payment, the employment minister, Michaelia Cash, announced a suite of changes to the jobseeker unemployment allowance. For a start, the payment will be cut.
Cash and her Liberal-National cohorts are claiming the cut is actually an increase, given that before a special coronavirus supplement doubled the rate, the dole was even less, and hadn’t been raised in 20 years.