Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

That was an act of gross insult to pensioners around the country. At least the government respected older Australians by being up-front with them about the changes that we knew were necessary to bring the budget into balance. Those opposite wanted to play political games, playing with the fears and anxieties of older Australians. They said they would go in there, they would change it and they would turn it over. Once again what we saw from the Labor Party on that issue was a cruel hoax. It was a cruel hoax. They never planned to change those arrangements, not once. They went out and misrepresented their position to the Australian people. They played pensioners for fools in this country and they should be ashamed. At least the government was prepared to look the Australian people in the eye and say, 'We must get these expenditures under control.' We put those measures into the parliament. We ensured that they were able to be passed through the parliament and implemented, and on the eve of the election, like on everything else—the Schoolkids Bonus and all of these things they beat their chest over—they flipped, and they lied to the Australian people in doing so.

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