South Australian council becomes the first to support raising Newstart

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Welfare groups, union and businesses have all been calling for an increase in the level of the Newstart Allowance for some time, but yesterday, the first council in Australia publicly advocated for the change. So what effect will this have? And it will it be a catalyst for other councils across the country to follow suit?

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