Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Last week, the Treasurer told Australians that the Abbott budget was 'fair' and that welfare spending was unsustainable. Today, the Melbourne Institute revealed that over the last decade there has been a 4.5 per cent reduction in the number of working-age people receiving welfare payments. Now that the government's claims of a welfare crisis have been exposed as false, why do the Prime Minister and his Treasurer is still believe it is fair to cut pensions and family tax benefits?

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