Backbencher Barnaby Joyce speaks to reporters in Canberra about his empathy for those trying to survive on Newstart. He refers to his own pay packet having to support two families and confesses he's on an 'incredibly good salary'. 'How someone gets by on $280 a week, god only knows,' Joyce says. 'People have to go through the maths,' Joyce says. He advocates opening up a discussion about 'how we use the cashless debit card for a greater capacity to get the basic essentials in people's lives'. He says it's his role as a backbencher to raise these issues after listening to his constituency







