Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. As the member knows, on 19 November last year I did a press conference to indicate that we were pausing all recovery for debts that had been raised by income averaging. The Attorney-General also made clear in the Insiders interview that income averaging is a longstanding practice of governments, going back decades. I went and checked, over the weekend, to see exactly how far back income averaging went. I asked the department to do a random sample of 500 debts raised—

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