PM commits $2 billion, page-2

Fire victims now learning what Newstart is like

“Now, the fires have impacted the town dramatically, a lot of people have been put off work for I don't know how long, it could be a week, it could be months."

He said existing disaster relief payments — equivalent to Newstart — were not enough to make up for his lost income.

"It's, to be honest, stuff all.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/scott-morrison-bushfire-recovery-bill/11844096


maybe now that we aren’t ‘focused’ (Scott Morrison) on the surplus

perhaps we might get some humanity and decency into social security payments?


‘There but for fate, go I”