Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given the government's decision to index veterans' pensions to CPI only, axe the backdating of veterans' disability pensions for new recipients and scrap the seniors' supplement for some veterans, won't all of these combined measures have a disastrous impact on the cost of living for Australia's veterans?