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James Robertson

Raising dire JobSeeker rates looms as a character test for Albanese government

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government will deliver budgets that would make Scott Morrison proud if it continues to absorb the cost of American submarines and tax breaks for the wealthy without spending to reduce poverty, his old political nemesis warns.

Three weeks before the federal budget the government appears intent on declining advice to raise the rate of the JobSeeker allowance after 28 years’ stagnation.

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