Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I reassure the member for O’Connor that it is from the library.

It is great to have the member for Warringah back. We know that this book not only reveals a little bit about their family policy, it does seem to be the member for Warringah’s latest effort—I am sure there will be more—at his tilt for the leadership.

This book has in it just another clue about how profligate this opposition would be if they ever got into government. He reveals in this book that he, the member for Warringah and the opposition shadow minister for families, wants to abolish the means test for family tax benefit A for children under five. He is nodding! I am glad to see he still agrees with the policy that he put in his book.

This would mean an extra cost to the budget bottom line—I will just let the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance know—of $1.8 billion a year. So over the forward estimates that means around an extra $7 billion to the budget bottom line. The question really is—

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