Barnaby Joyce calls for an increase to JobSeeker after income support scheme was cut to $50 a day

Andrew Messenger
Updated June 4 2021 - 12:38am, first published January 1 2021 - 5:00pm
WELFARE SLASHED: Member for New England Barnaby Joyce said he'd "hate to try to live on $50 a day." Photo: Gareth Gardner
WELFARE SLASHED: Member for New England Barnaby Joyce said he'd "hate to try to live on $50 a day." Photo: Gareth Gardner

MP Barnaby Joyce said he couldn't live on just $50 a day, the new rate of the JobSeeker payment as of New Years' Day.

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Andrew Messenger

Andrew Messenger

Northern Daily Leader journalist

Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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