Alan Griffin (Bruce, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I certainly won’t! What I will say, Mr Speaker, is that the proposal by the opposition excluded, but we have included, over 105,000 war widows—people who have lost their partners in the service of this country. It also includes some 90,000-plus partner service pensioners, who are the partners of those who have served our country. It also includes some 70,000-plus married service pensioners.

The fact of the matter is that the proposal that the opposition had—and there were many that they had—did not deal with the real issue here. What the government has done is a very good first step in dealing with the issues around the question of pensioner incomes into the future.

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