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

The further interjection from the Leader of the Liberal Party is, ‘We don’t make policy on the run.’ I would have thought that when you deliver the budget reply, which was then delivered on behalf of the opposition, that is the formal response to the government’s position. In that government budget we outlined our proposal to increase the allocations to pensioners through the utilities allowance and the telephone allowance, which actually represented something like a doubling, almost, of the additional payments to pensioners made in the previous Liberal budget. That is the first point.

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