On many occasions, in my former role as shadow minister for family and community services, I said the family tax benefit supplement would be clawed back off families. The Treasurer would be aware that when the family tax benefit supplement was legislated, the government changed the indexation arrangements such that the fortnightly family benefits would be indexed less generously until such time that the extra value of the $600 supplement would be completely eroded. Analysis undertaken by NATSEM showed that this was the case.