Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The publication that received the freedom of information material says:

The documents cast doubt on the feasibility of calls from the Opposition and some parts of the industry to redesign the supplement, which the department said would take "several years."

So a leading ageing publication, on the basis of the material to which Senator Polley referred, said that those documents cast doubt on the feasibility of the opposition's calls to redesign the supplement.

I have made clear that we are working with the sector for a replacement that can be sustainable and can operate within the original funding envelope. I have convened and already conducted a forum with people in the sector to work towards that very end.