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$100 a Week Boost for Australia’s Poorest: A Game-Changer Funded by the Wealthy

18 May 2025 Michael Taylor 9
With Australia’s most vulnerable grappling under cost-of-living pressures, raising pension and income support payments by $100 a week has strong justification. This would deliver $26 billion yearly to five million Australians, from Age Pensioners to […]

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