Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that there is no such threshold set for a person with a disability? Doesn’t this mean that a person with a disability under this government can be forced to work for a return even lower than $1.66? Isn’t it the case that there is nothing to stop the Howard government from forcing a person with a disability to take a job that leaves them worse off working than on welfare?