Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

What I say is that single-parent families who are currently not eligible for that payment will, as a result of this legislation, be eligible for that payment for the whole period while their kids are nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 and all the way through to 14.

This is a very substantial change, and this government will deliver those changes in a way that is legally sound and public policy sound. No person will be worse off, but, on 20 September, 60,000 single parents and their children will be eligible for a significant expansion in payments.