Labor MPs break ranks to call for substantial increase to jobseeker

Four backbenchers add names to open letter accusing PM of leaving ‘people with the least behind’

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Labor backbenchers have joined hundreds of politicians, academics, business leaders and advocates in calling for the Albanese government to substantially increase the jobseeker rate.

The MPs Alicia Payne, Michelle Ananda-Rajah, Kate Thwaites and Louise Miller-Frost have added their names to an open letter calling on their party leader, Anthony Albanese, to stop leaving “people with the least behind”.

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