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Welfare recipients are tired of being told the pennies we are thrown will somehow hold back the crushing weight of housing and other living cost increases we are dealing with. We are further behind now when Anthony Albanese took office and promised us things would change for the better.

The Antipoverty Centre is disgusted but not surprised that the government has chosen a budget surplus while repeatedly refusing to increase JobSeeker and other deeply inadequate Centrelink payments, rejecting all evidence of our desperate need.

People in poverty are the hardest hit by the compounding cost of living, housing and climate crises. Labor’s empty rhetoric on measures that affect us must be closely scrutinised.

The Labor Party leaves millions behind, it's time to take the power to set rates out of the hands of politicians.