Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Of the FTB B families, of which there are about 1.3 million, there are, as best we can track, 3,700 that fall into the category of a grandparent carer. What I would put to the members opposite is that they make what I think is a very strange assumption—it is not one that accords with the reality of the situation. Their assumption is that all grandparent carers are of age pension age or older. The reality is that of that—

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