Welfare advocacy groups are urging Australia's federal government to suspend mandatory in-person appointments for JobSeeker and Centrelink recipients, citing surging fuel costs that disproportionately burden unemployed and remote Australians. The groups also call for increased support payments to remote areas, where rising petrol prices threaten to erode existing cost-of-living assistance.
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Welfare advocacy groups are urging Australia's federal government to suspend mandatory in-person appointments for JobSeeker and Centrelink recipients, citing surging fuel costs that disproportionately burden unemployed and remote Australians. The groups also call for increased support payments to remote areas, where rising petrol prices threaten to erode existing cost-of-living assistance.