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

I have the budget papers before me. I have got a dual-income couple on a 70-30 income split, with two dependants aged under six, earning $60,000, and they will receive $10,067 a year through the social security system in 2016-17. Under this government people will continue to receive generous social security benefits. The difference is that under this government they will be sustainable. Under members opposite, they were being paid for by borrowed money. They were mortgaging our children's and our grandchildren's future so that they could big-note themselves with handouts. That is what they were doing. When it comes to—

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