Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It is a question put to you and I think the honourable member knows exactly what this refers to.

Let me just be clear there, the opposition—

that is, the Liberal Party—

is … endorsing an increase in the base rate of the pension.

The response from the shadow minister was:

Yes. Absolutely.

However, about an hour later—and they do not like this, and the member for Wentworth will even less so because it may interrupt other events that he has planned in the next fortnight or two—the member for Wentworth stood up and he said, ‘Well, we have not got a policy to raise the base rate of the pension.’ So the shadow minister says on radio that they are going to increase the base rate of the pension and an hour later the Shadow Treasurer says, ‘We have got no policy to raise the base rate of the pension.’

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