Paycut helps Joyce empathise with unemployed
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP
Nationals M-P Barnaby Joyce says he's struggling to make ends meet on his 211-thousand dollar parliamentary salary. It's inspired him to break government ranks to call for a rise in welfare payments for job seekers. But despite the show of empathy, the former deputy prime minister's remarks have received criticism from fellow politicians and welfare recipients alike.
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