Senate debates
Monday, 31 August 2020
Questions without Notice
COVID-19: Pensions and Benefits
2:26 pm
Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
Minister, at the COVID hearing not long ago, you said that 'to make any changes to the ongoing structural nature of our welfare system when we're in such a state of uncertainty would be completely irresponsible.' How is it irresponsible to guarantee that you won't drop people back into poverty, on $40 a day?
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