Clare O'Neil (Hotham, 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. Today the Melbourne Institute revealed that, over the past decade, the share of incomes provided by government benefits has dropped from 25.4 per cent to 21.3 per cent. Now that the government's claims of a welfare crisis have been exposed as false, why does the Prime Minister and his Treasurer still believe it is fair to cut pensions and to cut family tax benefits?

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