I regret to inform the House that there is going to be no cheer in the Christmas cracker for over 1.6 million Australian families. Tragically, this includes three million children. The reason for this is that tomorrow the Turnbull Liberal government intends to introduce legislation into the House which is going to savagely cut the family tax benefits for these Australian families.

In my own electorate, there are over 10½ thousand families who are going to be losing their family tax benefit part A, which is around $726 per annum, because the members over there are going to stand up and vote for it.