Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

There are some significant challenges that the government faces in both paying for sweeping reforms to child care and returning the nation to surplus. We are doing that in the way that we think is most reasonable and fair. It is a very challenging set of circumstances. The member for Jagajaga, who asked the question, has a conception of fairness which is interesting. When the member for Jagajaga was in government she removed 77,000 single mothers from parenting payments who were previously grandfathered. Those single mothers lost $150 a fortnight—$4,000 a year. That happened without any sufficient warning and without any reinvestment of the $685 million that was saved from that measure. In government the member for Jagajaga considered that that was fair.

Ms Owens interjecting—

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