The last Budget injection did not finish the job. At the time, Max Rashbrooke commented that meeting the child poverty targets over seven years would require "new spending on child poverty that is over a billion dollars a year, on top of previous spending". Last year's Budget announcement didn't even meet that threshold. We need more, and now is the time to act because this is part of the COVID response, this is part of COVID response recovery, and this is part of climate justice. We need the WEAG items ticked off. We need guaranteed, adequate incomes and fair pay agreements. We need rent control and we need more State housing, and we need it now.