Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Are you a minister now? You are an assistant minister though, aren't you? That is not a minister; that is a parliamentary secretary, that is what they actually call them. But to return to the bill: this is an egregious attack on families. No amount of interjection and comedy from those opposite—and we know the member for Herbert is a comedian—and no amount of chicanery or joviality will mask that this is an attack on families. It is an attack on their budgets. It is an attack particularly on people who live in my electorate and work hard and rely on every dollar every week just to get by. That is why this bill is being opposed by the Labor Party and that is why it should be opposed by the Australian people.

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