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Greens urging Albanese government to lift income supports above poverty line

The Greens are urging the Albanese government to lift income support payments in next week’s federal budget, adding it is the last opportunity before Australians go to the polls to “to turn [Labor’s] platitudes into meaningful action”.

This budget is your government’s last opportunity before the federal election to turn platitudes into meaningful action, by raising the rate of all Centrelink payments to above the poverty line. On behalf of the millions of people in this country who continue to struggle on poverty payments, we implore you to do so.