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

The second part of the answer is that, consistent with the position again adopted by the Liberal Party in support of the Senate inquiry on pensions and retirement incomes, that review is underway. That is the review which you also called for, and the government will deliver a comprehensive package of reform based on it.

The third part is this: the proposal put forward by the Liberal Party excludes 2.2 million pensioners—carers, widows, and others. We, therefore, do not believe in that sort of policy on the run. We believe in comprehensive reform. That is what is necessary for all pensioners and carers out there—not the single, opportunistic call on domestic party politics which has been made by those opposite.

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