Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

One for the country, and that is very important. That is children, not wives! That, of course, does not include carer payments, the Medicare safety net or the childcare tax rebate. They are all in addition to the $50,000 a minute that we distribute.

We want to make it more convenient for Australian families to access these sorts of services. That is why, over the last 16 months in Human Services, we have turned 238 Medicare offices into family assistance offices as well. In the 16 months since we introduced this initiative, 350,000 Australian families have accessed family services through Medicare offices. I might add that in the electorate of Hasluck, for example, there are two Centrelink offices—

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