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

The savings that you have left us with pay for 14 per cent of the $3.5 billion that we need to make those much-needed reforms. You have turned $4.7 billion of savings into $500 million. You saved enough by agreement with us to pay for 14 per cent of the necessary reforms to child care. You think it is fair in government to move single parents from one payment to the next, causing them to lose $4,000. You think it is fair in opposition to have less for coupled families but not less for a single family in exactly the same financial circumstance. (Time expired)

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