Senate debates

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill 2010

Second Reading

3:01 pm

Photo of Michael RonaldsonMichael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to table an explanatory memorandum in relation to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill 2010.

Leave granted.

Comments

John Griffiths
Posted on 21 Mar 2011 4:18 pm

Veterans in receipt of military superannuation payments are gratified by Senator Ronaldson's continued support. Which is in distinct contrast to his Labor counterpart ( Minister Snowdon), who has already proved that he couldn't care less about military super indexation. Snowdon's comments that the indexation increases couldn't be afforded shows he is as much out of touch with his portfolio as Allan Griffin was. The Debate on the Bill in the Senate on 24 March 2011 will be followed very closely by thousands of ex-military and current serving military personneland their families. It also puts the Independants and Greens on notice to follow their pre election commitments on this matter. If it falls over, there will be a lot of noise coming from the ex service community.