Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Conroy. I note that the tax cuts in the budget will deliver the Prime Minister and the Treasurer $116 a week in extra take-home pay within two years. Minister, why couldn’t the government afford one measly dollar extra in take-home pay for Australia’s one million pensioners, the working people of this country over the last half century?