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

Minister, as a number of us in this chamber have articulated, there are a number of people who are stuck in this country and have no income. They're not eligible for jobseeker payments or, in fact, JobKeeper. I've had a number of emails from Australians overseas who are in similar situations in the countries in which they live. Because they've been away, because they're stuck overseas, they've exceeded the extensions that have been made to some of the payments, or they had already fallen off the payments, and they have no visible means of support in the countries in which they're staying. And now we're doing the same here. Are you negotiating with any other countries for Australians to be supported overseas? As for all of the nonresidents who are here—and they're basically stuck here with no income and no access to income support—how are those people going to survive, when we've got citizens overseas who can't survive either?