Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Senator Evans. I note that Minister Macklin announced the welfare suspension truancy trial in the suburb of Cannington. Can the minister confirm whether this trial site is in fact restricted to the suburb of Cannington or whether it in fact extends across the Cannington Centrelink district, which includes the suburbs of South Guilford, Burswood, Victoria Park, South Perth, Queens Park, Belmont, Bentley, Rossmoyne, Welshpool and Canning Vale, to mention several of them? What support services are in place for the families that have had their payments suspended, particularly for those that have more than one child—in other words, children other than the ones involved in the suspension of payments? What is the expected increase in demand for charity and other services in this region, as they will be forced to cope with the families that have had their payments suspended?