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

So concerned were the Liberal Party about the state of the pension that for 12 years they had an opportunity to do something about the base rate of the pension and did nothing. Furthermore, in August last year, when, as reported in the Australian newspaper, the then Minister for Families and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mr Brough, took a submission to the cabinet to increase the pension, what did the Leader of the Opposition do? What did the member for Wentworth do? He was a member of the cabinet. What did the member for Higgins—now absent and presumably preparing for tomorrow’s performance at the National Press Club—do? What did the member for Curtin do?

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