Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's pre-election policy on the indexation of military superannuation, which says:

It is scandalous that military retirees do not enjoy the same indexation arrangements as other people who have retired.

Why, then, has the Prime Minister increased indexation for some military superannuants to include a wages benchmark, while at the same time reducing the indexation arrangements, for all other veteran pensioners, to the CPI?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Clearly the former minister realises the error in the questions that were being asked previously. The truth is that no military pensioner will receive a worse rate of indexation than a civilian one.