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For the first time, Canberra charities are finding full-time public servants, nurses, teachers and police officers are regularly needing their help to make ends meet.
Advocates have condemned the ACT's two-stage plan to raise the age.
The federal council wants JobSeeker and Youth Allowance to be increased up to $76 more a day.
So we have a wilfully low-key NYE. It involves just the two of us. We drive up to the servo early, and get a bucket of KFC. We come back to our house and â under Christmas lights that we keep up specifically for this purpose â we hose our balcony. All the detritus of the year is washed away. Then we put garlands on our heads, light sparklers, listen to the countdown and take a couple of seconds to hear the cheer go up in the air above our little country town. We do indulge an annual bacchanal but thatâs come to be Burnâs Night (25 January) where haggis, swords, kilts, Buck...