Adam’s Newstart Challenge – Day 4
There are 9830 people in my electorate of Melbourne surviving on Newstart, Youth Allowance or – up until Labor pushed them onto the dole – Parenting Payments Single. They are doing it tough. I want to help draw attention to their plight and to the poverty levels in our wealthy country. I want my Parliamentary colleagues to back the Greens’ push to lift Newstart and study allowances by $50/week.
This week, like thousands of people in our wealthy nation, I will be trying to survive on $246.30. This is the Newstart Challenge. Follow my progress here: http://www.adambandt.com/newstartweek