Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

It's not my scaremongering; it's your budget that is the problem. It is your budget that is scaring people. It is really frightening people out there. Those young people are frightened and terrified about whether or not they are going to be able to afford an education.

What is worse, of course, about all of this is that we have heard that young people who don't have a job and can't find a job are going to have to live on nothing for six months when their Newstart is cut off—nothing: no income, no support, nothing for six months. People under 30—what are they supposed to do? Are they going to rely on their parents at 28?

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