Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

It was a cut. You are quite right, Senator Conroy: it was a cut. Eighty dollars a week was going to be the real impact for Australian pensioners.

As we know—and, yes, one could be forgiven for thinking that Mr Morrison was actually the Treasurer—the Treasurer, Mr Hockey, has been sidelined.