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

I am not entirely sure what Senator Sterle was doing last night, but I was reading the budget papers. He will see from those that, indeed, this is an indexation pause. He clearly does not understand what is in the budget—and that is the trouble sometimes: when you are given a question and you blindly read it out, not having an iota of understanding about what is in the budget, then you get to ask really silly questions like this.