Social Services Minister Anne Ruston on the aged pension
If there was ever any doubt in relation to the Morrison government's attitude to the aged pension, it was laid bare in a radio interview earlier this week when Social Services Minister Anne Ruston told Neil Mitchell "the aged pension is put in place to help people who find themselves in older years not having saved the income to be self-funded". She described it as welfare and "a generous amount of money that the Australian taxpayers make available to our older Australians ... unable to look after themselves".
The Treasurer's commissioning a review of the retirement income system cannot come soon enough.
She may have been thinking of her own upcoming pension ???
"a generous amount of money that the Australian taxpayers make available to Politicians"