It's always someone else's fault, as the member for Berowra just said. Every time people go and buy their groceries, they're paying more or they're getting less in their trolley or both. This can't continue. Then, we have a situation where Labor just wants to buy more water out of the agricultural productive consumptive farming pool, like they did just recently with 86 gigalitres taken out, the equivalent of 34,400 swimming pools. What's that going to do to the ability to have Australian produce on the supermarket shelves? What's that going to do to the ability to have cheaper food? Well, it's going to have less Australian made food and higher food prices. It's obvious.

Then, of course, you have Australians opening up their power bills. We hear the Minister for Climate Change and Energy constantly spruiking his home battery program. Well, people are paying through the neck when it comes to energy costs, not just people but manufacturers. I heard the member for Forde earlier talking about textiles and manufacturing. He was good to mention that and good to acknowledge that. But those industries are going backwards. If it is so good and great, why is Labor constantly having to subsidise and rescue alumina in Newcastle in the Hunter Valley, the steel industry in Whyalla in South Australia or the rice mills down in the Riverina to the tune of $14 million? Recently the latest buyback cost 92 jobs. Fourteen of those people found other work within SunRice. They were fortunate, much more fortunate than the 78 who did not. That's 78 families who now don't have an income. Then they hear us talking about the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 3) Bill 2026. They see that Lavington and Wagga Wagga and Ganmain and Goulburn are getting money as a recompense for the water buyback situation, and they get angry. And they get annoyed. And they get frustrated. And they are in despair—and for good reason.

We've got to be better than this. Bureaucrats have to get maps, and they have to look at those maps. They have to also speak with local members of parliament and say: 'If we're going to spend money in Goulburn, will that help them because they've lost the irrigation channels and they've lost all the irrigation farmers? If we give money to the Lavington sports oval, is that going to help the irrigation farmer who might have a paddy of rice?' They don't have rice in Lavington! It's just ridiculous.

Labor has to be better. Bureaucrats have to be better. I'm almost pleading. It's just dumb. It's nonsensical, it's stupid and it's a waste of taxpayers' money. Labor, you have to be better than this. People demand it. People expect it. People need it. People deserve it. Be better.