Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, poverty is a political choice. Last year your government increased income support during the lockdowns, but this year hundreds of thousands of people have lived through lockdowns on payments below the poverty line, going without food and without medicines and being at risk of homelessness. The removal of COVID disaster payments means thousands more people are now joining them. Minister, do you agree that the JobSeeker rate of $44 a day is not enough to live on?