House debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Bills

Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2014-2015; Consideration in Detail

12:06 pm

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

The honourable member opposite should quote the entire radio interview and not excerpts from it, because if she quotes the entire radio interview she will see that I pointed out when I came back to that matter that it was the senior supplement. So she should be more accurate in what she says. I ask this question rhetorically: if it is good enough for the Labor Party when in government to index family tax benefit part A by the CPI why is it not appropriate to index pensions and other payments by the CPI as well? There is a great deal of hypocrisy—

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