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

Say I am on Newstart and I have got 60 bucks that I can access. Particularly if I am travelling, for example, I am likely to have spent that, or I will go through it very quickly. So, sorry, the 20 per cent answer does not cut it, because I need access to more cash than that 20 per cent. It is a relatively small amount of money. People that are living on income support are living on small amounts of money and just managing to make ends meet.