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Greens Say Time For Talk Over - Increase Dole.
Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:06am
 
Greens push for increase to dole.     Smiley

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    January 5, 2013


THE Greens this year will move to raise the weekly Newstart, Abstudy and youth allowance rate for singles by $50 a week, arguing that the time for talking about the problem is over.     Smiley    

Greens senator Rachel Siewert, who will introduce the plan to the Senate in Parliament's first sitting week in February, said: ''It's realistic and achievable and, if we're truly a caring society, we care for our most vulnerable.''

The Parliamentary Budget Office says the plan would cost about $7.4 billion between now and 2016-17.

The Greens say a separate plan - as yet uncosted by the budget office - to index Newstart, Abstudy and youth allowance in the same way as the pension, would bring the cost to $8 billion over four years.


Newstart and the other payments are indexed at a lower rate than the pension, leaving the payments progressively lower than the age and disability pensions.     Sad

The development comes after a week of debate about the adequacy of the dole, which more than 80,000 single parents - most of them women - were transferred onto from the higher parenting payment this week. Business groups, unions and the community sector have been calling for a rise to the $35-a-day dole for months, while Families Minister Jenny Macklin caused uproar this week by saying she could live on the benefit.

Senator Siewert, who spent a week living on the equivalent of the dole last year to highlight the challenges faced by people on the dole, said: "All the evidence, and my own small taste of the experience, shows that Newstart is too low, evidence the government tragically continues to ignore.''    

This week Treasurer Wayne Swan and Health Minister Tanya Plibersek said that the government's priority was to get people into paid work.

Ms Plibersek said: ''I think that anyone would understand that it is hard to live on an income support payment, and that's why as a government we've increased the age pension, we've increased disability pension [and] we've increased carers' support, but Newstart allowance for unemployment is designed to be a temporary payment.''

But Senator Siewert said about 40 per cent of people who went onto the Newstart allowance remained on the payment after a year, with the other 60 per cent finding work.

While pressure is growing for an increase to the dole, senior government ministers have refused to comment this week about whether a rise is likely for the May budget. Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott has written and spoken in support of raising the dole, saying in August that ''entrenching people into poverty by expecting them to live on $35 a day is not a pathway back into employment''.

The Greens say the money could be found by toughening the mining tax and increasing the mining tax rate to 40 per cent.     Smiley

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/greens-push-for-increase-to-dole-20130104-2c8z6.html#ixzz2H2wJ6IId
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Re: Greens Say Time For Talk Over - Increase Dole.
Reply #1 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:08am
 
A party with 1 MP and 1 in 10 people support should just keep their trap shut.
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Balance of power in the senate.     Smiley
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Reply #3 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:11am
 
Only when the two main parties don't agree.

How did that balance of power work on offshore processing?
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Reply #4 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:11am
 
Whilst I'm not a fan of the Greens I have trouble with your statement Andrei .. how do you figure they should keep their mouth shut, and yet you are free to offer your opinion?

They at least are in the country and have an elected member of parliament  ... you're just a foreigner who represents ...... how many was it again?  ...... ohh, zilch, nil, nothing, no one..
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Reply #5 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:14am
 
Everyone is entitled to their opinion on the way their country is run.'like I do and you do.

However making grandiose statements as if you are a potential Government and you have 1 MP is absurd.
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Reply #6 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:14am
 
Whatever, either way its an important issue, and the greens are right.  The unemployment benefit, should be increased $50 a week.     Smiley
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Whatever, either way its an important issue, and the greens are right.  The unemployment benefit, should be increased $50 a week.     Smiley    



And where do you find $1,690,000,000 a year crook.
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Reply #8 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:34am
 
Increase taxes.  Cut back something else.  Or a combination of both.   Wink
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Reply #9 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:37am
 
The Greens say the money could be found by toughening the mining tax and increasing the mining tax rate to 40 per cent.     Smiley
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Reply #10 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:38am
 
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The Greens say the money could be found by toughening the mining tax and increasing the mining tax rate to 40 per cent.     Smiley   


Killing the golden goose
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Reply #11 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:48am
 
The golden goose for the rich and well off.     Smiley
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The golden goose for the rich and well off.     Smiley


You didn't put much if any thought into that crook.

If you don't know what I mean I am sure Andrei will.
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Reply #13 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:53am
 
Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:14am:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion on the way their country is run.'like I do and you do.

However making grandiose statements as if you are a potential Government and you have 1 MP is absurd.


so when you make a statement it's an opinion ... if a greens MP makes one it's a grandiose statement .... I detect more hypocricy from you here Andrei ...
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Reply #14 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 8:55am
 
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The Greens say the money could be found by toughening the mining tax and increasing the mining tax rate to 40 per cent.     Smiley   


sort of like the version they voted down originally?
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