Barbara Pocock (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

In my state, South Australia, I met recently with a group of people living on JobSeeker. They often cannot afford food or medicine, their kids don't make it to school excursions and their teeth give them pain every day. They're living on a JobSeeker rate of $48 a day, well below the poverty line in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet. Why has your government refused to raise the poverty level of JobSeeker?