Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Because pensions go up every year. Pensions go up every year—every March pensions; every September pensions go up. Pensions will go up every single year. It is true that, come September 2017, if this government is re-elected, there will be a change in the rate of indexation. That is true, but pensions will continue to increase every single year. They will increase every March; they will increase every September; they will increase every single year. I say again to the rather noisy member for Jagajaga—the member for Jagajaga who is so honest and truthful that she promised in her 2012 budget update that 'we are back in surplus'.

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