Senate debates

Monday, 26 March 2018

Questions without Notice

Pensions and Benefits

2:33 pm

Photo of Concetta Fierravanti-WellsConcetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, the member for Fenner provided us with this little gem. In an opinion piece entitled 'You're only as old as they feel', he suggested that:

A better approach would be to index upper age limits in all laws …

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How might age indexation operate in practice? One approach would be to mandate that all elderly age limits should increase by 3 months every year …

So it's rather hypocritical—

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