Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

forty dollars that you, on that side of the House, opposed. This base rate boost has been built by two subsequent rounds of indexation for payments like JobSeeker. In fact, the combined result of the $40 increase and the regular indexation since the Albanese government took office means that the base rate of JobSeeker has increased by $120 a fortnight.

Today we're also indexing the rates of Commonwealth rent assistance. This is occurring on top of the government's largest increase in Commonwealth rent assistance in 30 years. This will benefit over a million households.

These payments are just one of the many elements—whether it's help with energy bills, cheaper medicines, cheaper child care, lifting the Medicare levy low-income thresholds, tripling the bulk-billing incentive, expanding the eligibility of the Commonwealth seniors healthcare card, freezing social security deeming rates, expanding paid parental leave and delivering bigger, better tax cuts for working Australians—where this government's getting on with the job.

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