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

With the 3,000 grandparent carers, I posit that the assumption is that they are all of pension age or older. But they are not. What we are saying on this side of the House with respect to grandparent carers, single-parent families and couple-parent families is that we must devise the architecture of the system so that taxpayer funds are being applied in a way which creates the greatest enablement and incentive for workplace participation. That 3,700-person cohort we are talking about are not all of age pension age. A very large number of them are—

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