The Senate Community Affairs References Committee Adequacy of Newstart and related payments and alternative mechanisms to determine the level of income support payments in Australia April 2020 © Commonwealth of Australia 2020 ISBN 978-1-76093-060-8 (Printed Version) ISBN 978-1-76093-060-8 (HTML Version) This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License. The details of this licence are available on the Creative Commons website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/. Printed by the Senate Printing Unit, Parliament House, Canberra. Committee Members Chair Senator Rachel Siewert AG, WA Deputy Chair Senator Wendy Askew LP, TAS Members Senator Catryna Bilyk ALP, TAS (from 5 February 2020) Senator Hollie Hughes LP, NSW Senator Malarndirri McCarthy ALP, NT Senator Anne Urquhart ALP, TAS Substitute Members Senator Sue Lines ALP, WA (for Senator Urquhart on 6 November 2019) Participating Members Senator Patrick Dodson ALP, WA Senator Helen Polley ALP, TAS Senator Louise Pratt ALP, WA Former Members Senator Raff Ciccone ALP, VIC (from 5 December 2019 to 5 February 2020) Senator Deborah O'Neill ALP, NSW (until 5 December 2019) iii Secretariat Jeanette Radcliffe, Committee Secretary Apolline Kohen, Principal Research Officer Sina Hutton, Principal Research Officer Sarah Batts, Research Officer Clare Rhodes, Graduate Carol Stewart, Administrative Officer Stephanie Oberman, Administrative Officer PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Phone: 02 6277 3515 Fax: 02 6277 5829 E-mail:
[email protected] Internet: www.aph.gov.au/senate_ca iv Table of Contents Committee Members ........................................................................................................................ iii Terms of Reference .........................................................................................................................