Margaret May (McPherson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, can you confirm that your office has received seven letters from Mr Ashley Norman, of Walkerston, regarding the carers lump sum payment? Prime Minister, can you also confirm that your office has lost all seven letters? Can you also confirm that when Mr Norman phoned the office of the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs on Friday, a senior adviser confirmed that the carers bonus and allowance had been scrapped? Can you also confirm that when Mr Norman was put through to your office on Friday, one of your senior advisers confirmed that the carers bonus and allowance had been scrapped?

Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On the first part of the honourable member’s question, I am unaware of that correspondence. I will seek to find out what correspondence has arrived. On the second, I have absolutely nothing to add in terms of my earlier answers. We would not have indicated to a constituent that these bonuses were under risk of being scrapped. That is not the case. Government policy is as I have stated it.