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

Thank you for the history lesson! Did the Commonwealth talk to the states about a minimum payment for the very reasons that I have just articulated, where a scheme that is supposed to be helping people—and will help people, I should say—will actually end up retraumatising some people because the Commonwealth, the states and the territories and the non-government institutions did not agree on a minimum payment? That's my first question. The next question is: have you talked to the states about how you will address this issue of no minimum payment and what it means to survivors and applicants who get what they describe as an insultingly low payment?