Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

Can I first of all thank the hardworking men and women of Services Australia and join the member for Maribyrnong, whose motion today thanked them for all the work they've been doing in very difficult times. They've done 42 per cent more lifting in the last 12 months than they normally would.

I'm not going to point the Leader of the Opposition to Google, where he can get all his questions answered. When it comes to issues of when programs of debt recovery started, it's important to understand that this government didn't invent income averaging. Income averaging has been a program extant in our system for a long time. To assist the House—

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