Brendan Nelson (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the case of Mrs Pat Stafford, who has motor neurone disease and who says that the carer’s bonus enables her and her husband to keep their 25-year-old car on the road. Is the Prime Minister aware that her husband, Henry, thinks that without the lump sum payment Pat would end up in an institution? Is the Prime Minister aware that over the weekend Pat Stafford said, ‘John Howard was the quiet achiever but Kevin Rudd has turned out to be the quiet deceiver’? In the light of his failure to guarantee that carer’s lump sum payments will be paid, will the Prime Minister have the decency to apologise to Pat and Henry Stafford and the 400,000 carers who feel betrayed?

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