Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I note the interjections from those opposite. If they don't support these initiatives, I'm disappointed but I would hope that they would. There is $14.9 million to 2023 to expand the Good Shepherd Microfinance No Interest Loan Scheme, to help up to 15,000 additional women experiencing family and domestic violence access finance when they need it most every year, and $50.4 million to support an additional 31,200 families to resolve family law disputes quickly through mediation.

This government is getting on with serious business. We're getting on with putting serious policies in place that address the real needs of Australians, whether they be women, whether they be young people or whether they be senior Australians who will be supported by the work we're doing in our billion dollars extra every year for aged care. There is the royal commission into aged care, which we believe will be essential to provide the platform for important reforms in our aged-care sector into the future.

Our government is focusing on the issues that Australians are concerned about: their jobs, their livelihoods, their services and the economy that delivers all of these things. The Labor Party has become so obsessed with their own political opportunities that they can only focus on the politics of Canberra. They have become so arrogant and cocky about the election— (Time expired)

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