House debates

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Statements by Members

Abbott Government

1:46 pm

Photo of Andrew GilesAndrew Giles (Scullin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That leads me to ask myself: what sort of family is it? While they may like the 1950s, it is not like Happy Days. It is more like the Addams family, more like the Griswolds. We saw duelling parliamentary secretaries over the co-payment issue this morning, as just one example. But it should not be about their family; it should be about the families we all represent—the impact of $5.5 billion in cuts to family payments, the impact of cuts to child care effectively shutting down Indigenous early learning centres. So I join my colleague the member for Griffith in asking members opposite to think about Taylor Swift and to 'shake it off', to shake off the policy agenda, not the personality problems, that bedevil this government. It is your policies that matter, and you should be concentrating on real family values: dignity, security and lives that effectively enable people to balance work and life.

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