Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The program that the member for North Sydney refers to was in fact a program of the Howard government inherited by the current Rudd government. Shortly prior to the election in 2007, the amount of the rebate involved was in fact doubled by the Howard government, and that in a sense has been the core reason why the program has blown out. The government has included within its budget calculations provision for the cost of the additional expense—

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