Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

The government will be opposing these amendments. This is unnecessary and would weaken the deterrence effect of penalties for those persistently non-compliant jobseekers who are deliberately not meeting their requirements while on payment, despite being fully capable. This would effectively be reproducing waivers, which are a significant problem with the current compliance framework and one of the key reasons why we're proposing a new framework.