Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The assumption of members opposite is that any person who finds that their FTBB is reducing is passive and is simply not going to make any decision. The assumption of members opposite is that a grandparent carer can never re-enter the workplace, and that is a ridiculous, old-fashioned notion that has no bearing to reality. Both single-parent carers and grandparent carers have capacity. We have recognised that that capacity is somewhat more limited— (Time expired)

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