Brandis, Sen George

Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (14:28): I can confirm, as I was trying to convey to you in my answer to your primary question, that as a result of the measures the government proposes to introduce, 170,000 pensioners, pensioners with modest assets, by the way, will be better off. Senator Brown, why your party would stand in the way of a pension increase and improving the circumstances of 170,000 Australian pensioners with modest assets is beyond me.