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Up for the challenge Amelia and Rory, aged four and one, pick out books for the 2020 Mayor’s Reading Challenge. See story page 5. Picture: Supplied
Welfare cuts will cause poverty - MP Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au THE federal government’s decision to reduce JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments will “throw many people into poverty”, Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says. From September, the JobKeeper payment will be cut to $1200 a fortnight and the JobSeeker payment will
drop from $1,100 to $800. For people working less than 20 hours a week, JobKeeper payments will be further cut to $750. Ms Murphy told The Times “there are more than 30,000 people in Dunkley who currently rely on JobKeeper or JobSeeker to survive and sadly more people are expected to lose their jobs and businesses over coming months.” “If Mr Morrison continues with
his plan to snap back to $40 a day it will be devastating,” she said about the JobSeeker reduction. “Under JobKeeper 2.0, those who were left out of wage subsidies last time are still out in the cold. There is no JobKeeper 2.0 for casuals, PARC employees, Monash University employees or early childhood educators. Unless the Morrison government addresses these issues, more locals will be left behind.
“Employees of Frankston and Mornington Centrelink are doing an amazing job under significantly increased workloads. The Morrison government appears determined to close Mornington Centrelink and Medicare in September, which will leave thousands of vulnerable people, some of whom have never had to interact with Centrelink before in their lives, without face to face support, and further increase the workload
of Frankston Centrelink.” Ms Murphy said that the cutting of services at Mornington Centrelink needed to be reversed to keep up with demand. The Mornington office will soon close and be replaced by a single desk service at the post office, which is manned for 15 hours a week (“Single desk Centrelink”, The Times, 14/7/20). Continued Page 3
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