House debates

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Questions without Notice

Dunkley Electorate: Centrelink

2:49 pm

Photo of Stuart RobertStuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. As the House would know, Services Australia runs an extraordinarily diverse property portfolio—in fact, 728,000 square metres across 402 commercial properties. Services Australia runs 325 customer-facing sites. It's a large portfolio. That portfolio used to be larger. In fact, it used to be larger by 256 sites, which were those that Labor cut from 2009 to 2013. In 2009, 61 sites were cut. In the 2011-12 budget, 67 sites were cut. So I say to the member: your tactics committee has given you the hospital pass from hell when you walk in here and talk to us about sites when the colleagues of yours over there closed 256—

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