Protest against cuts to sole parents' pension

Alex Bainbridge
Boorloo/Perth
April 14, 2013
Issue 
961
News
Video: Newstart = Poverty: Protest the cuts to parenting payment - YouTube/GreenLeftOnline.

Perth protest by sole parents and supporters against the cuts to parenting payment in which 84000 sole parents have been forced onto Newstart at a rate more than $130 per week below the poverty line!

Speakers included: Rachel Siewert, Mary O'Brien and Sam Wainwright and others.

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