Larissa Waters
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All of it.
Who is affected because of everyone's response?
Exactly.
Well, we don't know yet because the government is still doing the detail.
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.
And disabled people and their families are saying, well, is that me?
Do I need to be like panicking and trying to make other arrangements here?
And the government doesn't have the answers yet.
We have literally asked the minister point blank, can you please identify who will be cut?
And they're not able to tell us yet.
It is obscene.
It is literally a budget decision for them.
They have not factored people in or the harm that they're going to do to people into this decision.
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?
So we're going to have a Senate inquiry into this as well.
And submissions, I think, are already open at the moment.
We've got some hearings coming up in first week of June, second week of June.
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.
And it is just, it is like, you can't do that to people.
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.