Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) | Hansard source

I thank Senator Rice for her question. I reject the implication in the question that this is an uncaring government. We have made decisions in the budgets that we have presented since coming to government where we try and assist those Australians that are most in need and most vulnerable. I can repeat what I said before, and that is that the rate of JobSeeker will increase by $40 a fortnight on 20 September. As a government, we can't just do one thing. We can't just look at issues relating to JobSeeker. We have to look at the totality of the economic circumstances. That does mean— (Time expired)