Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, as for your compassion, last night's budget gave people living below the poverty line an increase of just $2.85 a day, which won't even cover the cost of a loaf of bread, but it gave billionaires and politicians almost 10 times as much, with the stage 3 tax cuts giving every one of us here $25 a day, or $9,000 a year. Why do we politicians need $9,000 a year in tax cuts while jobseekers are left on poverty payments?