Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister said that we were seeking to use the story of Harper's cuts for political purposes. That is not the case. The mother—

Government members interjecting—

Just hear us. A couple of sentences won't kill you. The mother has written to me at two o'clock—

Government members interjecting—

This is about the mother of the person you claim to care about. The mother has written to me because I sent her the Prime Minister's letter, and the mother has said that in the time that the cuts occurred to her son, he's now legally blind, he's lost his ability to talk—

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