1st core benefit increase in 44 years today

Today is the 1st real increase in core benefit rates for 44 years.

was not done by a left wing caring socialist government with huge surpluses.

It was done by a uncaring poor oppressing neoliberal National Government that is barely back into .

Despite the date, this is not an April Fool's joke.

The same uncaring poor oppressing neoliberal National Government has also today (on top of $25 a week extra for ):

  • Increased the childcare assistance rate from $4 to $5 an hour
  • Increased in-work for low families
  • Increased paid parental leave to 18 weeks
  • Increased the minimum wage to $15.25 an hour – the highest in the world relative to the median wage
  • Increased superannuation payments by 2.7%
  • Abolished

This hateful neoliberal Government must be destroyed comrades.

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