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

The slip and fall cases to which the honourable member for Paterson has referred warrant the most serious consideration by the parliament and by the government, and that is why we have provided an explicit reference to the Productivity Commission on the future form of any possible social insurance scheme which would deal with the many, many, many Australians who find themselves in those circumstances.

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