Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

As I made clear in my last answer, if anybody in this parliament is concerned about superannuation and low-income earners then they must protest the Leader of the Opposition's plan to disadvantage low-income earners—more than three million of them, 2.1 million of them women. Everybody who says they are concerned must go to the Leader of the Opposition and say that this is wrong. I trust the member who asked the question has done that and will refuse to support it here in this parliament and in his electorate where he will declare that the Leader of the Opposition is wrong. He should particularly declare that the Leader of the Opposition is wrong because this superannuation cut, hitting as it does low-income Australians, hitting as it does predominantly women, would be hitting the same people that the Leader of the Opposition wants to rip the Schoolkids Bonus off as they try to get their kids to—

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