It's half a million veterans. It's their families. And, at the moment, they are hurting. I spoke to an Afghanistan veteran in Brisbane at a forum, and he couldn't understand why his service had been insulted in this way. He couldn't understand why the medals that he so proudly wore and both the mental and physical scars had been rejected in this way by this government, which has turned its back on our veterans and has absolutely insulted and betrayed our veterans. Our veterans deserve better than this—$748 million over three years. That, from 1 July next year, is what our veteran community is faced with.

They need the allied health. They need the physical help. They need the psychological help. It's all well and good to say, 'We're working on the referrals process,' but if you're a veteran and you live—like our veteran friend did at this Brisbane forum—live remotely or if you live regionally, it is so hard to get a GP at the best of times, let alone a specialist. How are they going to after that $5,000 cap—and you can shake your head all you like, Minister. You can roll your eyes because you did that at the veterans, but you're not going to do it in the parliament when I tell you our veterans are watching. They're watching right across the country, and they know that this cap has to be scrapped.

They know that this cap is so unnecessary, because it wasn't a recommendation of the 122 recommendations handed down after the royal commission. It was not one of those recommendations. What we've seen here this morning is Labor once again kicking this into the never-never, Labor kicking what was a Senate bill passed, an amendment to the legislation that is going to be put through this place—35 to 20. It was rejected. Every non-government member voted against it—35 voted in favour of this amendment. What we've got is a Labor Party, a government, that is hurtling well and truly over $1 trillion looking to make cuts from veteran spending. Shame on them!

Yet they won't listen to the veteran community. They won't even listen to the Senate. The amendments come back here into the House and get kicked into the long grass, never to be seen again. I hope you speak to this motion, Minister. I sincerely hope you do, because there are people out there who are absolutely hurting. As the member for Herbert, a veteran himself, has just said, unfortunately, there are going to be people who have really bad outcomes from this particular cap. Scrap the cap! (Time expired)