Tony Windsor (New England, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I take on board your comments, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I point out that in his speech the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, who is in the chamber at the moment, referred to thresholds. Obviously the world is on a precipice at the moment, and policy directions will determine some of the longer term thresholds that embrace the wider community. I think it is important, as the minister did in his quite lengthy introductory speech, to send a very clear message to those people who are going to be recipients of Medicare assistance and the various thresholds involved—

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