Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I would say to the Leader of the Opposition, and he knows exactly what I am talking about, that, if he was really serious about pension reform in the 12 years that the Liberal Party was in office—and let us narrow it right down to the shorter period that he was in cabinet—why was the matter of pensioner reform raised only last year, 12 months ago? You did not do a thing to adjust the pension.

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