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

Included in my questions was the question: did you look at any potential bridging payments? If 20 September is the earliest date that the department says they could get all of this in place—as I said, I don't accept that that's the case, but even if that is the case—was there consideration of any bridging payment for the 8,000 families who are going to be forced onto JobSeeker in the interim?