Senate debates

Thursday, 19 September 2019

Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019; In Committee

10:24 am

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

This is probably more just a comment from me: you haven't been able to answer my question, Minister, so I just want to get on the record that I have to assume you don't have that data and nor has Treasury even bothered to look. It's a surprise: $600 million is a lot of money to pay out to vulnerable Australians. In other words, people—the cohort that we're excluding—are using this permanent disability protection cover life insurance. It's working and I would have thought that's a significant number in terms of the payout to people who are actually benefiting from this system.

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