Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

As I have said on a number of occasions in this place, the AAT plays a very important role in making decisions and providing independent merits reviews to a wide range of decisions. In doing so, I would note that each case is unique and turns on its own facts and circumstances and the situation. There have been decisions of the AAT that have upheld the debt decisions calculated using income averaging, and equally there have been those that have not. What I would say is that you cannot unilaterally come in here and make a determination on the basis of a specific case and make a general assumption that the decisions that are made on particular cases, and, as I said, some of the unique and individual cases before the AAT have been found not to have been upheld, and others have been upheld.