Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

If you think that is a yawn, go out and tell the 57,000 families that you think it is a yawn. I am happy to repeat that right across this nation.

The realities are, as Senator Boswell knows, that the Australian Labor Party, having pilloried anyone who suggested there should be a change, in the 10 days before the last election to save the seat of Mike Kelly in Eden Monaro, came up with a half-baked, half-cocked plan to change indexation. It did not address the proper indexation—it was for those over 65—and those on the opposite side of the chamber stand utterly condemned for what they have done to date.