Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Senator Evans. I refer the minister to the Prime Minister’s promise in March this year:

What I can say, to carers and pensioners right across Australia, is that there is no way on God’s Earth that I intend to leave them in the lurch.

Given the higher costs of living under Labor, why is the government continuing to leave pensioners in the lurch on a paltry $273 per week?