Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Following on from the assistant minister's answer, I refer to comments by the CEO of Council on the Ageing, Mr Ian Yates, who said that—and these are his words—if the government cuts the indexation rate of the pension, full pensioners would be living well below the poverty line. Is Mr Yates correct?