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

I know that the government probably wants the eight-week non-payment period not to increase but, unfortunately, because the triggers have been halved to three, there is that potential. We will keep watching this issue very closely. Could the government also explain why preclusion periods are not able to be worked off when the rationale is supposed to be a focus on engagement? We would have thought being able to work them off would have been consistent with the whole philosophy of re-engaging people in employment.