Fed: One-off payments will fund "one hell of a party": Abbott

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-2008
Fed: One-off payments will fund "one hell of a party": Abbott

CANBERRA, Dec 14 AAP - Some people will use their one-off payments to fund "one hell
of a party", opposition families and indigenous affairs spokesman Tony Abbott says.

The federal government is handing out payments to families, pensioners and carers before
Christmas as part of its $10.4 billion stimulus package.

Mr Abbott said overall the policy was "reasonable" but some payments should have been
quarantined so they would only be used for essentials.

"In some of the remote communities of our country this money is going to fund one hell
of a party," Mr Abbott told the Nine Network.

"I would have quarantined the lump sum to the necessities of life for welfare dependent
families with children."

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