My question is to the Premier.
Today the federal budget is being handed down, and the low rates of income support for people on JobSeeker and youth allowance are keeping many Victorians in extreme poverty, making it harder for women to escape violence and pushing people into already stretched and underfunded state-based homelessness and crisis services – cost shifting of the worst kind.
Given the impact the low rate of income support has on so many Victorians, why isn’t the Victorian government publicly advocating for the rate of income support to be raised above the poverty line in today’s federal budget?
