David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer ) Share this | Hansard source

to ensure that hard-working families, in electorates like the member for Parramatta's, not only have the opportunity to make ends meet but to get ahead. I am pleased to advise the member for Parramatta that, in her electorate alone, some 9,000 families will be receiving the schoolkids bonus. In addition to that, 45,000 hard-working individuals will receive a tax cut. On top of that, 14,000 families in the electorate of Parramatta will get an increase to their family payments. And of course our responsible economic management is giving the Reserve Bank the space that it needs to cut interest rates, if it chooses to do so, to deliver more relief to working families.

These benefits are not just confined to the electorate of Parramatta but will be spread right across Western Sydney and, indeed, right across the country. I note that, in the electorate of Macarthur, which is also in Western Sydney—

Ms Julie Bishop interjecting—

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