dying political discourse of blame and abuse. Here you have a former minister for social services who, I have no doubt, cares very deeply about struggling Australian families and was critical of a set of policy measures that were in our last budget that we could not secure passage for when it was taken to the Senate. She believes that the government has reconsidered those changes and examined ways in which they could be made more acceptable so that they can pass through the parliament. Instead of actually welcoming that, she stands up in the parliament and wants to attack the government for that.

Ms Macklin interjecting—