The Australian Greens are calling on the Morrison Government to immediately extend the suspension of mutual obligations for jobseekers and others on income support in flood-affected areas across New South Wales and Queensland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australian Greens spokesperson for community affairs and social services, Senator Janet Rice said: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMorrison\u2019s decision to reinstate mutual obligations today for people on income support in flood-affected areas is a cruel joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople across NSW and QLD are dealing with an ongoing natural disaster and the impacts have already been devastating. People in these areas have been battered by more than a week of catastrophic weather conditions, their lives as they\u2019d known them have been destroyed, and they\u2019re struggling to rebuild their homes and communities. More than ever they need the support of their government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYet after only seven days, the Morrison Government has ended the suspension of mutual obligations for jobseekers and people on income support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Clearly, Morrison and his government have not even an ounce of empathy or understanding for the hell people are living through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople should be focusing on healing from the disaster and repairing their lives. Instead, those on income support are once again being forced to fulfil mutual obligations or risk their payment being cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe government must immediately extend the suspension of mutual obligations to ensure that these communities aren\u2019t further devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Greens are calling on the Morrison Government to immediately extend the suspension of mutual obligations for jobseekers and others on income support in flood-affected areas across New South Wales and Queensland. Australian Greens spokesperson for community affairs and social services, Senator Janet Rice said: \u201cMorrison\u2019s decision to reinstate mutual obligations today for people on … Continue reading “Greens call for extension of mutual obligations suspension for people in flood-affected areas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15335,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions\/15335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}