Senate debates

Monday, 18 March 2013

Questions without Notice

Pensions and Benefits

2:35 pm

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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Current projections if indexation remains the same are that Newstart will be about one-third of the age pension. How far does this gap have to widen before the government realises that this is in fact not an incentive to work?

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