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A single person out of work and living in a shared house has an average of just $127 left each week for bills or incidental expenses after covering rent, transport and food, the report finds, while a single-parent household on the Parenting Payment has just $24 remaining each week.
Covering the cost of weekly essentials is leaving Australians on JobSeeker and other welfare payments with little left over to pay bills or other incidental expenses.
The cost of rent, food, and petrol are taking a toll on people living on Centrelink payments and...
Every day the rental vacancy crisis is pushing more Australians into homelessness, many for the first time.
Suddenly, the case for changing from economic rationalism to economic nationalism, is everywhere.