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

That is perfectly fair and reasonable. I suspect that many of those submissions will say, 'Whatever you do, don't increase taxes on superannuation. Whatever you do, don't make superannuation more restrictive.' I will be able to say that this government will never do that. We are not going to increase taxes on superannuation. We are not going to make superannuation more restrictive. I tell you what we are going to do: we are going to give pensioners with modest assets a much better deal. That is what we are going to do. 170,000 pensioners with modest assets will be $30 a fortnight better off under this government thanks to the agreement we have with the Australian Greens. Would that Labor were so responsible. Would that they were not so determined to be wreckers—not just wreckers of legislation but wreckers of the lives of those 170,000 poor people who will have their $30 a fortnight ripped off them by this individual if he ever gets to be the Prime Minister of our country.

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