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

Can I go to the issue of no minimum payment. We've had some discussion about this, and a number of us mentioned it in our second reading contributions. What are the mechanisms that are in place to ensure that an applicant doesn't receive a really insulting low payment? Is it possible that applicants, for example, could be offered just a couple of hundred bucks? Does the government acknowledge that receiving this kind of offer could in fact be retraumatising to people and the fact that there is no minimum payment could very well retraumatise people?