Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Welfare groups including Anglicare, Oxfam Australia, the Salvation Army and the Australian Council of Social Service have said:

We believe that a company tax cut is a mistake while almost 3 million people live in poverty.

How is it fair that, at the same time, the Turnbull government's freeze on family tax benefits will leave a family with a household income of $60,000 a year and two primary-school aged children around $440 a year worse off, while giving big business a $65 billion handout?