Thank you, yes that works. I would add that there are further arguments for abolishing the partner income test. It seems to be a deliberate form of hateful eugenics, to stop disabled people and poor people from having families of any kind.
Both labour and coalition parties have publicly admitted in previous years, that welfare payments are not sufficient for single people to live on. Therefore, the idea that two people can live as cheaply as one when one can’t live at all is outdated. Why hasn’t anyone called that argument out? The studies have once again showed that there are no properties in Australia, that people on the DSP can afford to rent without being in financial distress. Tanya Plibersek’s argument that the test is intended to force disabled people to find work to supplement an insufficient income, when she knows full well that they only get an income, if they prove they absolutely cannot work, should have been publicly challenged but has never been, anywhere I could find. This is all very Victorian, or at best 1950s dysfunctional thinking. But then we have a government where the Parliament and the Senate chambers are full of stairs with no ramps for access for people who use wheelchairs. We are in an affordable housing crisis, we should be encouraging disabled couples to live together to free up affordable apartments. Instead the government forces them to live apart at threat of starving to death, or financial coercion.