Published: April 01, 2019
Government senator also says he doesn’t know the ‘rationale’ for excluding people on the benefit from the one-off energy payment
Liberal party senator Arthur Sinodinos has broken ranks on the eve of the budget to call for an increase to the Newstart allowance, becoming the first government MP to do so.
“Over time it should be higher,” the New South Wales senator told the ABC’s Q&A program. “That’s probably a slightly radical thing for me to say here … but my observation is this does raise an issue that should be considered at some stage. There is a cost to the budget, there’s an expense. But budgets are all about choices.”
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