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

I want to go to the questions I was asking earlier about commitment of funding to like-size communities who have similar sorts of issues so that we have an adequate comparison between a community that is getting the sorts of wraparound services that you are providing—$1 million worth of services is quite a significant injection of services—and a community that does not get that. Many communities do not get that. How will you compare apples with apples if you are looking at the impact of the card versus the impact of the services? I go back to where I was heading before we went off on another issue. Will you be looking at a like community that does not have the card but that is receiving the services so that we can then look at the impact of card and the impact of the services? Many of us would argue that those services are key. I will say again that it is really good that services are going in. This is so we can look at what the impact of those services is and what the impact of the card is.