Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for the opportunity to ask him some specific questions particularly about these people who are in very serious need. I want to draw his attention to a group of young people who are unemployed and who are going to be abandoned by this government and left with absolutely nothing to live on for a month. I would like to ask the minister: how many young people will be left with nothing to live on if the legislation that is currently in the parliament, saying to young people that they will have absolutely no form of income support for a month? How many young people will be affected in the first year of operation of this change? I also ask the minister what he expects these people to live on, where they will get food to eat and where they will get money to pay their rent.

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