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

I thank the senator for his question. First of all, can I say that nobody is saying that it would be easy to live on Newstart. That's why the coalition's policy in relation to Newstart is one that has been entirely focused on job creation and creating pathways to a job. The one thing that this government will absolutely commit to, to anybody who is on Newstart and anybody who has not got a job, that we will, as a government, work our absolute hardest—