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

I understand what you've said. You built that into the process. It's a reconsideration—not automatically back on the card. My concerns is for a person who has received an exemption there's a degree of trauma going then. Somebody's now said, 'I need to go back on the card.' That person hasn't any professional relationship to me. I haven't gone to see them at the health clinic. I haven't accessed the service that they may be working in, because a community worker could be someone working in an NGO, for example. I don't have any professional relationship with them. They just rang up the department, or did whatever the process will be, and now I'm faced with proving all over again that I meet all the criteria. I really don't see how that's fair.