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The social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, has dismissed Peter Dutton’s jobseeker proposal as “just a thought bubble with no substantive analysis behind it”.
In his budget reply speech on Thursday, the opposition leader withheld support for the government’s $40 a fortnight increase in jobseeker and instead called for welfare recipients to be able to earn more before payments are reduced.
This is a thought bubble by Peter Dutton. And what we don’t know is how this will actually encourage workforce participation. He’s provided no evidence to suggest that this would alleviate barriers that many people on job seeker have in gaining employment. He quoted 75% of job seekers don’t report any earnings. But of course, that means they’re already not taking out the income-free threshold of $150.
Now, of course, we’re going through a whole range of scenarios and analysis through our white paper on on labour and full employment and so we will continue to work through that process in a rigorous way.
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