Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Senator Sheldon, for your question. The government has announced measures over previous weeks and we come today to this place again with another package so that we can assist as many Australians as possible to get to the other side of what is an unprecedented crisis. We were absolutely focused in the first instance, with our first package that came out, which was the jobseeker package and the corona supplement, to make sure that we addressed the concerns of, and the impact on, those who are the most vulnerable in our society, those people who find themselves without income.

Today, obviously, we have another significant package. It is probably the biggest package that this parliament will ever have to address. Hopefully, we will never again have to be in a position to address a package the size of $130 billion. This package will look to add on top of the previous two packages to support another group of Australians who have been impacted by the coronavirus. Today, as we did when we were here last time, as we did before the parliament got up, this government continues to put in place a range of different measures to make sure that a broad range of Australians—