Everybody acknowledges that a lot of Australian families are having a really tough time at the moment, what that added pressure means and what it means for their day-to-day existence. To counteract that, to try to have a non-inflationary impact while reducing the cost of living, you have to get creative. You have to do things that matter to the everyday—things like tripling the GP Medicare rebate to allow more doctors to bulk-bill so people can get in and know that they're going to the doctor for free, or the $25 medicines so people aren't having to make those decisions at the end of the month: Do we eat? Do I take my meds? What if a bill comes? Do the kids need school shoes? Those are things that are important. Then there is fee-free TAFE, to give people who maybe missed out on their opportunity early in life to live their dreams—nurses, for example or carpenters—to give them that extra shot at it, to go in without having to put more money on the table to do the job that they want to do, to get into the industries that we need. If you look at Australia as a whole, inflation is a problem. We know that; everyone is happy to acknowledge that. But so is housing. We know we need more skilled labour, and fee-free TAFE is a big part of that.

It has to be a holistic approach. Everything we do has to be a holistic approach. Any clown can point at a problem and yell at it. That is not a solution. You identify one thing, yell, yell, yell and make noise. That's not going to get you anywhere. What you need is to understand every single aspect that you're living in and that you're working in. But what we're seeing from the opposition at the moment is an inward-facing conversation with a constant check over their right shoulder to see what's coming up the other way. We saw it when the member from New England had his question today in question time regarding abolishing anything to do with climate change. And then, at the end of the shadow treasurer's MPI, he belled the cat and went straight for climate change and straight for housing. We knew this was going to happen. It's inward looking again, in that the party that is so into trade, so into business, is going to stand in the way of a free trade agreement—44,000 tonnes of sugar. That's a lot of sugar.