My goal is to limit my impact on my environment and reduce my personal spending to the sames as the Australian Government Newstart Allowance.

I understand that both of these will be very hard to achieve but I will do my best to get as close as possible.

After a quick review of http://www.centrelink.gov.au/ it appears that a single adult with no dependents is eligible to receive $449.30 per fortnight. As we all know, we all have to spend money to make money, I will not take into consideration the cost of work like getting to and from work.