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

I am very happy to inform the Shadow Treasurer that the single-income couple with two dependent children aged between six and 13 where one of the couple is earning $60,000 will continue to receive $8,348 from the taxpayer in social services benefits. It is very important that we continue to be a generous society, but we can only be a generous society if we have a sustainable budget. The tragedy is that thanks to the incompetence and the untrustworthiness of members opposite—

Mr Pat Conroy interjecting—

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