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Larissa Waters

πŸ‘€ Speaker
674 total appearances

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It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

All of it.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Who is affected because of everyone's response?

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Exactly.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Well, we don't know yet because the government is still doing the detail.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

So they've just announced this $38 billion cut over four years, or 37.4 to get technical, over four years, which we know equates to originally we thought 160,000, but now the new figures are like, no, 241,000 people who will now not be able to get support.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And disabled people and their families are saying, well, is that me?

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Do I need to be like panicking and trying to make other arrangements here?

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And the government doesn't have the answers yet.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

We have literally asked the minister point blank, can you please identify who will be cut?

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And they're not able to tell us yet.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

It is obscene.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

It is literally a budget decision for them.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

They have not factored people in or the harm that they're going to do to people into this decision.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

They're literally like, how many dollars do we have to save so we can give Donald Trump money for his weapons and so we can keep those property investor barons off our back?

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

So we're going to have a Senate inquiry into this as well.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And submissions, I think, are already open at the moment.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

We've got some hearings coming up in first week of June, second week of June.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

But you're asking the same questions that the disability community have been asking, that we've been asking on their behalf to the minister, and they are not able to give us that detail yet.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And it is just, it is like, you can't do that to people.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

You can't say maybe this will be you, maybe you'll be left with nothing, but then sorry, we haven't worked out if it's going to be you yet.