Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

and $546 per annum for pensioner couples. We will in fact keep the pensioner supplement, which currently is up to $1,635.40 for singles and $2,464.80 for pensioner couples—and that, too, will increase in September this year.

If the Labor Party were not just feigning indignation, as they are in this chamber, then they could do something to help pensioners in Australia. What they could do is get out of the way and allow the repeal of the carbon tax, which would mean $550 on average to households in Australia. What nonsense is coming from the Labor Party.

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