Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Even closer to my electorate of Braddon on the north-west coast of Tasmania—and you had better listen to this—they ignored 13,400 pensioners, including 998 carers, 5,583 disability support pensioners and 6,819 pensioner couples. There is no denying that single age pensioners are doing it tough, but so too are many other people who have pensions to rely on.

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