'I wouldn't say that': Tony Abbott refuses to back Joe Hockey over poor don't drive comments

By Lisa Cox
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:15pm, first published August 15 2014 - 11:57am

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has refused to back comment by his Treasurer Joe Hockey that the poor "don't have cars or actually don't drive very far".

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