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5 charts on what a Newstart recipient really looks like

  • Written by Owain Emslie, Associate, Grattan Institute
5 charts on what a Newstart recipient really looks likeUnless we know who who Newstart recipients are, we are likely to make wrong decisions about how much to pay them and whether to drug test them.Shutterstock

The Newstart unemployment benefit is all over the news. It’s the subject of a Senate inquiry. Today it will take evidence in Elizabeth, in what used to be Adelaide’s industrial north....

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