Pressure on government to increase welfare payments in budget | 7.30

"No one held back, no one left behind" is what Anthony Albanese declared a year ago on the night he led Labor to election victory. But with cost of living pressures being felt right across the country, this year's federal Budget has seen a concerted push to do something to help the millions of Australians living below the poverty line. The arguments about what should happen to JobSeeker or support for single parents have raged back and forth. But they raise the question about how politics ever got to the point where we accepted so many people struggling to make ends meet in the first place. Laura Tingle reports.

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