Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I do not really see the legislation differentiating between financial hardship and financial crisis. I can understand hardship might be over an ongoing period and a crisis might be unexpected expenditure, which might be related to needing to move house or the kinds of things that happen when families break up, but I am seeking reassurance that families who might be to move house—et cetera—will not be subject to this insidious, terrible one-week waiting period.