Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Disability Reform) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Fowler very much for this question. This government is delivering to people in his electorate, who we know are having a lot of trouble making ends meet. I can inform the member for Fowler that, in his electorate alone, 63,000 people have received household assistance support from this government in the last few months—families, pensioners and others who need that support. And we know that all of them will face having that clawed back by the Leader of the Opposition.

We also know that people in the electorate of Fowler fear not only the Leader of the Opposition but also the Premier of New South Wales, who has decided to claw back some of this money and hike up public housing rents because he wants to take the money out the pockets of families, out of the pockets of pensioners, to fill his budget black hole, just like the Leader of the Opposition will.

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