The yucky Greeny Scunge is really feeling self conscious about her being on Newstart and gluing herself to the Doomsday roads.

October 16 2019
Senator wants Newstart increase
West Coast Sentinal


Senator for South Australia Marielle Smith believes an increase in Newstart could provide an economic stimulus in towns such as Ceduna.

Ms Smith recently visited the West Coast as well as Murray Bridge and said the Liberal Government was out of touch with regional South Australia.

In rural and regional SA there are 19,633 people on Newstart, including 8911 in the electorate of Grey.   

"Instead of stigmatising and demeaning Newstart recipients, the government should be coming up with a plan for our economy," Ms Smith said.

"We have stagnant wages, rising costs and the economy is growing at its slowest pace in a decade.   

"An increase to Newstart would not only help people doing it tough, it would provide much needed economic stimulus, especially in regional South Australia."

Ms Smith said during her visit she wanted locals to be heard on state and national issues.

"People living in places like Ceduna and Murray Bridge are crying out for economic stimulus in their towns," she said.

"They are crying out for investment and they are crying out for more jobs.

"An increase to Newstart could help deliver this."

She said boosting Newstart was not just a social policy issue, but also about growing the economy.

Federal shadow minister for Families and Social Services Linda Burney recently launched a petition calling for an increase Newstart, which attracted 11,000 signatures on the first day.

"We are encouraging people to sign the petition and know so much of the benefit in an increase of Newstart will go to regional people," Ms Smith said.

 

whiteknight wrote on Oct 17^th, 2019 at 4:35am:

Another source of stimulus would be for the government to pull its finger out, uphold its end of mutual obligation, and create the more than 2 million full-time jobs that are needed in this country. Not in ten years. Those jobs are needed NOW.

Another way the government can fulfil its mutual obligation requirements is to stop signing treasonous free trade agreements that sell out Australian jobs to foreign workers without giving Australian workers any opportunity to take those jobs. All those agreements will need to be ripped up and renegotiated.

Bam wrote on Oct 6^th, 2019 at 1:25pm:


Nah, give everyone over 18 years old $1000 per month - no strings attached and it would much cheaper than the total cost of welfare. It would also be a massive boost to the economy.

Auggie, but Socialism has been proven to be a failure everywhere it is tried.

The problem is it runs out of money as nobody is working to create wealth in the economy so Socialism is a downward spiral to poverty.

But try to tell that to the Lefties smiling on Newstart and other assorted Welfare rorts who have never done a days work in their lives.