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Newstart Allowance is the Centrelink income support payment for people who are unemployed. For a single person without dependent children it is currently $245 a week (plus up to $60 in Commonwealth Rent Assistance if they rent in the private rental market...

Single mothers protesting their financial insecurity. Kerry Arch Friday, September 9, 2016 The responsibility of governments to help with the costs of child-rearing has been a part of Australian social policy since the early 1920s, when the first...

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email. … the level of the unemployment...

While the Australian government ramps up its war on terror rhetoric and sending our armed forces to Iraq again, thus providing a major political diversion from their virtually complete policy failure on the socio-economic front, the data keeps coming...

Prepare to be shocked. On Thursday the Bureau of Statistics is likely to tell us that the unemployment rate has scaled new heights, climbing from 6.3 per cent to as much as 6.5 per cent. If it happens, unemployment will have hit a 13-year high. It'll...