Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Modelling is only as good as the brief which is given. NATSEM is a reputable organisation, but I cannot say the same for the Leader of the Opposition's office, which provided the brief for this modelling. When the gentleman who was responsible for the modelling was being interviewed by David Speers yesterday, he referred to the cameos which the member has just referred to. He made it very clear that there were some things missing in those cameos. One of those was that the impact of the carbon tax being abolished was not taken into account in the cameos themselves.

In the same interview, the gentleman responsible, Mr Phillips, made it very clear that it was those opposite who selected the cameos that were published, not the modellers themselves. Six out of those seven cameos did not have a child under five and were not using child care. The Leader of the Opposition's conception of a family is the Benjamin Button model: when someone is born, they go straight from the delivery room to primary school or high school! When you have push briefing, all you can expect is push modelling.

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