Labor flags policy to boost jobseeker but backs away from promise to specify figure

Labor supports Coalition’s proposed $3.57 a day raise, but may not announce target for further lift before the election

Labor has left the door open to supporting the government’s $50 per fortnight increase to jobseeker but going no further before the next election.

On Thursday the shadow minister for families and community services, Linda Burney, refused to commit to a larger increase.

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