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

and we are implementing the policies we were straight enough with the Australian people—up-front enough with the Australian people—to take to the election, like abolishing the schoolkids bonus, a cash splash with borrowed money.

For the benefit of the shadow minister who asked the question, a single-income couple where one of the parents earns an income of $60,000 a year and the other does not earn an income, with two dependents aged six to 13, will continue to receive, in the year 2016-17, $8,348 from the taxpayer. The difference between the payments we will make and the payments members opposite were promising to make is that our payments can be relied upon because our social security system is sustainable in a way that of the members opposite simply was not.

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