Readers respond to Dr Chris Wallace’s Sydney Morning Herald/The Age opinion piece – Julia Gillard committed a terrible wrong. It’s time for Albanese to right it, published on 4 August, 2022. She argues there is a strong link between the growth in child and family poverty and the shocking Howard-Gillard government decision to move single parents to the lower JobSeeker payment when their youngest child turns 8 – a decision she argues that the Albanese government must reverse.