Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In order to deal with the $123 billion of prospective deficits, in order to deal with the $667 billion of cumulative debt that Labor was running up, we would not continue the Income Support Bonus. The Income Support Bonus is paid to tens of thousands of people. Amongst those people are some of those mentioned by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. I can also inform the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that we are not going to continue the Schoolkids Bonus, and 1,780 Department of Veterans' Affairs clients receive the Schoolkids Bonus. Presumably we should continue the Schoolkids Bonus on that same logic, because 1,780 DVA clients receive it.

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