Anthony Byrne (Holt, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I will start off with the member for Wills and his concern about age pensioners. Whilst those on the other side might be somewhat concerned about the fact that he did not raise that in the appropriate manner, the Prime Minister’s office, through the Ministerial Correspondence Unit, does in fact receive a very large number of responses and letters with respect to issues from across a gamut of areas. The fact is that we do deal with some of these issues in correspondence, so I think it was pertinent for the member for Wills to raise that. We do not take constituencies for granted. We do not just ignore certain constituencies, like the previous government did for 12 years, and then write it off and disparage someone—

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