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HomeNewsNewstart Rate Is 'killing Indigenous Australians': ANU Researchers
Newstart rate is 'killing Indigenous Australians': ANU researchers

A remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. ANU researchers say there is no prospect of reducing the life expectancy gap while Newstart remains so low. Picture: Janie Barrett

Monday 14 October 2019

The rate of Newstart is killing Indigenous Australians, with no prospect of closing the life expectancy gap while the unemployment benefit remains so low, Australian National University researchers say. Read more