Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Blair for his question. We are assisting households in Blair to make the transition to a clean energy future. There are 14,300 families in Blair who have already received the advance payment totalling $3 million. From March there will be permanent increases in payments for families, pensioners and those on income support and, of course, from 1 July 47,000 people in Blair will benefit from the tripling of the tax-free threshold. I will say that again: 47,000 people will benefit from that initiative. These are the battlers. These are the low-income earners. These are the self-funded retirees that will benefit from our tripling of the tax-free threshold. I am sure the people of Blair understand the importance of this assistance and they understand that the Leader of the Opposition wants to rip it out of their pockets so he can give a tax cut to his billionaire paymasters.

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