Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Siewert for her follow-up question. As I said before, in the answer to her original question, nobody is saying it will be easy to live on Newstart. Nobody's saying it would be easy to live without a job. That is why the absolute focus of this government is to create jobs and to create pathways for people who don't have a job to get a job. As I said, and I said it in both of the answers to the previous questions, the focus of this government is absolutely on job creation and pathways to jobs. For people who are currently on Newstart, the promise that this government will give them is that we will do everything we possibly can to get them off Newstart and into a job.