新起点津贴（Newstart Allowance）为正在找工作的澳大利亚失业人群提供补助，那么是哪些人在领取这一失业补助金呢？ 失业补助金新起点津贴（Newstart ...

根据统计局今年2月公布的数据，澳洲失业率连续第九个月维持于5.7％。澳洲寻工者可以如何获得经济上的援助呢？梁焱刚及鄺美玲为你详细介绍 ...

Newstart recipients will receive their half-yearly pay rise today, but it amounts to less than 24 cents per day — or enough to buy about 36 peanuts, writes Peter Martin ...

The proportion of Newstart recipients on payments for more than a year has climbed from 69% in 2014 to 73% in 2016, and according to the latest Department of Social Services figures, to 76.5% in 2018.

GOVERNMENT and opposition senators have sided with the Greens to bring on an inquiry into Australia's $35 a day Newstart unemployment allowance, one of the lowest in the developed world.

Newstart recipient Robert McClintock says he has to dip into his savings to get by. (Supplied: Robert McClintock) "Mentally, it's very challenging," he said.

They are older on average than five years ago. Over the five years to March 2019, the number of people on Newstart aged over 45 swelled by one fifth, and the number over 55 by two fifths. At the same ...

Newstart is $244.85 a week, rent assistance an extra $60.10. In Sydney the total falls far short of the $420 median rent on a one-bedroom flat. In Melbourne and Perth it barely exceeds the $300 ...

Newstart has fallen from 46% of median family income in 1996 to 36% in 2009-10 – or from a little way below the common relative income poverty standard to a long way below; ...

Another Newstart recipient said it was essential to find savings with the weekly food bill in order to get by. I think people don't see me the same way as they did a couple of years ago.

A new ANU computer algorithm can provide near instant answers about how to get the best bang for welfare dollars. It says we should boost Newstart and cut either pensions or family benefits.

What better illustrates inequality than the low level of Newstart payments, long denounced by all and sundry? Yet when the test came, the proposal to increase Newstart was repudiated 45-11 in a ...