Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

The first answer that I would provide is that these Australians are accessing their own money under arrangements that we put in place. The average withdrawal is about $8,000, and it is individual Australians, including young Australians, exercising their judgement—their own personal judgement—on how to deal in their circumstances with the implications on them of this one-in-100-year event.