Senate debates
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Questions without Notice
JobSeeker Payment
2:00 pm
Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source
First of all, I would reiterate that the government is extending the payments to people who are on unemployment benefits with the extension of the coronavirus supplement from the end of September until Christmas. Any assertion that it is anything other than an extension of a payment is actually false and misleading. As I said yesterday, every single person in this chamber who came in here in March, when we put forward a massive package of reforms—
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