It's the return under the new leader of the Greens, Senator Shoebridge, of a determination by the opposition and the Greens party to team up and thwart every sensible measure this government seeks to bring before this parliament at such difficult times. The Manager of Opposition Business talks about arrogance. There wasn't even a debate in this parliament. There wasn't even a debate in the other place about the Private Health Insurance Amendment (Modernising the Private Health Insurance Rebate) Bill 2026. No attempt was made by senators to make the argument that at least the Manager of Opposition Business and the member for Lindsay have made this morning about some very serious issues presented by this proposition: issues of intergenerational equity, cost of living and aged-care services, which the Manager of Opposition Business describes in his motion as 'wasteful spending'.

No argument has been made about the equity issues that are rightly raised by this question. As I said in my introduction to this bill, the Howard government, extraordinarily, had to amend the Age Discrimination Act to protect itself against legal action by Australians under the age of 65 over around what was clearly a discriminatory application of government policy—