The Coalition's Budget Refusal

On Thursday, the opposition leader Peter Dutton delivered his budget reply speech. He outlined an alternative to Labor's increase to job-seeking payments. The proposal would allow welfare recipients to earn more before their payments are reduced. Senator Jane Hume is the shadow finance minister and the chair of the Senate Select Committee on the cost of living. She tells us what she saw in her committee's interim report that touched on a number of key issues. It was really about energy, it was about housing, it was also about the charity sector.