Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That is what is happening. The member for Bass will have his chance. He is speaking on my notion, no doubt in a bipartisan way, a bit further on in the day. But what we have got to establish is: these pensioners do it tough. They are the most susceptible to cost of living arrangements—most susceptible to those pressures. The last thing any government should be doing is cutting their concessions. And that is what this government is doing. That is what the member for Hindmarsh is doing. That is what the member for Bass is doing. They are hacking into pensioner concessions by hacking into state government budgets. We all know that that is the case. They will try and run. They will try and squirm. But that is the case.

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