Treasurer says government won’t rule out adopting Peter Dutton’s proposal for welfare recipients to be able to earn more before being penalised
In his budget reply speech on Thursday, Dutton instead called for welfare recipients to be able to earn more before payments are reduced.
Chalmers said on Sunday that the government had “a substantial agenda when it comes to workforce participation”.“Getting more people into work was already a central feature of our economic plan beforestarted scratching around for something to say in budget week,” Chalmers told the ABC’s Insiders program.
“We’re looking at the workforce more broadly in the context of the employment white paper and all the policies we have already put in place so people can work more and earn more and provide for their loved ones.”The social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, dismissed Dutton’s proposal as “just a thought bubble with no substantive analysis behind it”.
This framing does not rule out the possibility of the government taking up a similar idea once officials have worked on the details. Rishworth argued Dutton’s proposal could have “unintended consequences”, but said the government was using the employment white paper process to examine “a whole range of scenarios and analysis”.The shadow treasurer,“You would expect that from a government that doesn’t seem to be focused on the things that are really going to help all Australians to put downward pressure on inflation, getting people into work” he told Sky News.
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