Yes. 'My competition is going to cop it, so I'll let that go.' I mean, seriously. I don't know who else is on the Expenditure Review Committee of cabinet, but, whoever was there, someone should have said something.

Then, of course, it would have gone to cabinet because cabinet would have had to give it the final tick. Do you reckon anyone would have stood up for pensioners in that cabinet? I don't know. I'm trying to think who would have said, 'What about the age pensioners who are doing it tough in a cost-of-living crisis?' Do you think someone would have done that? It doesn't seem like they did, sadly.

Can I say to all those pensioners in Australia, 1.5 million of them, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry that the Albanese Labor government is doing this to you. But I give you a commitment. We will fight it all the way. The coalition think this is appalling public policy, and there are two reasons why we think it's appalling public policy. The first is they're hitting those who are doing it the hardest. They are hitting, and hitting hard, those who the cost-of-living crisis is really impacting. As I've said, for a single, it's about $800; for a double, it is more—it is over a thousand. Now, when you've seen your electricity bill go up by 40 per cent, when you've seen your gas bill go up by way over 20 per cent, when you've seen your insurance go through the roof, when you've seen a basket of groceries go through the roof, the last thing you need to see is your private health insurance rebate hit. But that is what is happening here. It's bad, because this isn't a cost-of-living relief measure. This is an adding to the cost-of-living measure. In a cost-of-living crisis, what's the Albanese Labor government's big brainwave? It's to add to the cost of living even more for 1.5 million pensioners.

Then there's the other bad public policy aspect of this. The public health system is stretched to near breaking point. People can't get in to get treatment, and the Albanese Labor government have been warned about this. Who have they been warned by? The Western Australian state premier, who's Labor; the Northern Territory leader, who is coalition; the South Australian premier, Labor; the Queensland premier, LNP; the New South Wales premier, Labor; the ACT leader, Labor; the Victorian premier, Labor; and the Tasmanian premier, Liberal. Every single state and territory leader across the board has said this policy is nuts. As a matter of fact, at the state and territory leaders meeting with the health minister every single one of them tore him a new one. They said this is madness. And what's the government's response? We're still here tonight and we're still debating this bill. You'd think they'd listen when every single one of them, one after another, lines up—