Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. In relation to the government backflip on the Medicare levy, the Minister for Finance said:

What do people expect us to do, just to keep it on the books without any prospect to actually collect the money in practice? That just does not make sense.

Given the Turnbull government's plan to axe the energy supplement has no prospect of passing this parliament, will the Turnbull government now abandon its unfair attack on the two million Australians, including 400,000 age pensioners, who depend on the energy supplement?