The Greens respond to formal review process on the rate of income support, warning that it needs to be independent and include the voices of people living in poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for government services and social services, Senator Janet Rice said: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe ‘Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee’ could be great if it leads to meaningful change, it can\u2019t be an excuse for more delays or a pathetic raise to the rate that still leaves people living in poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis review needs a clear methodology with a focus on how much people actually need to live, not what the Government feels like allocating in the budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt should be genuinely independent with public terms of reference, public hearings and public reporting. And it needs to hear from people actually living in poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLast week the Greens provided the Government an easy opportunity to raise the rate and do something concrete for the people that need it most, and they joined the Liberals to vote it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe cost of living crisis isn\u2019t waiting for a review – people are living in poverty right now, they can\u2019t afford to put food on the table right now, they can\u2019t afford their medical bills right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens will keep pushing to get concrete outcomes for people on income support so Australians don\u2019t have to make decisions like which meals to skip because they have to pay the rent this week.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens respond to formal review process on the rate of income support, warning that it needs to be independent and include the voices of people living in poverty. Greens spokesperson for government services and social services, Senator Janet Rice said: \u201cThe ‘Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee’ could be great if it leads to meaningful change, … Continue reading “\u2018ECONOMIC INCLUSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE\u2019 NEEDS TO FOCUS ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE NEED TO LIVE – NOT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT FEELS LIKE GIVING”<\/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-19323","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\/19323","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=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19324,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions\/19324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}