Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the President of the New South Wales RSL, Don Rowe, said he was absolutely disgusted with the government's mean-spirited decision that came as news to him. He said:

I think it’s a mean penny-pinching exercise. It is a help to the families and the families need it.

Prime Minister, how can the government defend this callous and unprincipled decision to harm and take away from the children of our veterans, particularly the orphans?

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