On 22 March 2018 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Bligh Turnbull deleted this tweet.
The video this tweet contained survives for a limited time elsewhere.
The reason why this tweet came and went so swiftly? Because many of the people with speaking parts are not low-income aged pensioners who just happen to have shares.
They are former business owners who are now self-funded retirees and, a least one of them structured his superannuation now in the pension phase on the premise that he would be receiving a taxpayer-funded cashback payment for unused franking credits - that is cash handouts for tax he never paid - for forever and a day.
One suspects that Turnbull suddenly realised that the video was not the tearjerker he originally thought it was.
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