Senate debates

Monday, 19 March 2018

Bills

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017; In Committee

9:46 pm

Photo of Rachel SiewertRachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Given all that you've said, we've had a series of these. Is there then another flag when somebody has been through, say, three cycles of this? Instead of them rolling through, is there a process that then says, 'We're having multiple failures here'? If they've been through a series of cycles, they're going to have very little income. They're going to be existing for quite a period of time on no income. How do we support people who are going through that process if there is no cap on the number of times that they can be suspended?

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