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

to end the supplement that was meant to compensate for a tax that did not actually go ahead. What the member fails to tell the House is that the savings achieved from that measure the Labor Party has already banked and spent. When you have a look at Labor's fiscal plans, they are absolutely explicit on page 30 on all the measures which we have openly and transparently said that we would pursue and which they have said they would reverse. There is a big long list of them. They would not proceed with applying a one-week ordinary waiting period. They would not proceed with changes to pension affordability. The list goes on. Mysteriously absent from the list is the energy supplement. So it is just like the changes to the pension assets test. We all remember that—when the member for Jagajaga's party announced during the election campaign that they would support—

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