Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I reject the premise of the question that Senator Wong just put to me. As I have said in this place, when I and the government became aware that income averaging as a method for determining debts was not a valid means by which to determine those debts we changed the program to ensure that we did not continue to determine debts via this invalid method. However, going back to the comments in relation to the AAT, as I've said in this place on a number of occasions this week, each and every case that goes before the AAT turns on the specific facts of that case. There were cases before the AAT that were upheld and there were also cases that went before the AAT that were overturned—