Penny Allman-Payne (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I'd like to put it to you that 20 per cent, 18 per cent, of hardly anything at all is not much. It still doesn't get those people who are living below the poverty line above it. Minister, this is the second year in a row that the government has ignored the advice of its own hand-picked Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee, which is headed up by a former Labor minister. Is it the permanent position of the Labor government that you will never raise the rate above the poverty line, as the Liberal government did during the COVID pandemic?