As I was saying, if the eligible young person was wholly, mainly or partly dependent on the member or former member, while they remain an eligible young person they can also receive a weekly payment of $135.34; a gold repatriation health card, providing free medical care; and an MRCA supplement of $6.20 per fortnight.

The payment that the senator refers to was tied to the mining tax, a tax that raised no money, a tax that actually cost taxpayers money. The brilliance of the previous government was such that they introduced a tax that actually raised no revenue and cost the taxpayer a motza. I do not think in the history of our country we have ever seen a more incompetent government, which would introduce a tax that actually raised no revenue and cost the taxpayer money and then sought to tie a whole lot of benefits to it, to rub salt into the wound. Of course, the senator does not understand any of that.