House debates

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Questions without Notice

Carer Supplement

2:24 pm

Photo of Joe HockeyJoe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

We are not going to go down the path of ruling in or ruling out initiatives in the lead-up to the next budget. This is a long, worn old path, including by us in opposition, I might say. We tried that—the problem we found was that we were always right, unlike the Labor Party, which, so far, is proving absolutely wrong. Of course, when it comes to welfare and caring about people, I really hope that the honourable member has already spoken to the Leader of the Opposition about that cut to single mothers initiated by the Leader of the Opposition—67,000 single mothers taken off the single mothers pension and put onto Newstart, and it was initiated by the Leader of the Opposition. I would suggest to the honourable member that she start a conversation with her own leader rather than asking us questions that certainly have no foundation.

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