HOUSING SA RENTAL INCREASES

The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE: Presented a petition signed by 1,157 residents of South Australia requesting the council to urge the State Government to—

1. Abandon the policy of Housing SA from March 2011 taking, as rent, the rental proportion of the pension increase that the federal government intended for pensioner retention as income; and

2. In future, heed the wish of the federal minister in this regard.