I move:

That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today.

Australians only have to wait another 324 days until the next election, on 7 August 2027. That is the first possible date for the next federal election. It's just 324 days of waiting for Australian voters until they get an opportunity to cast a verdict on the performance of this Labor government. If the Australian Labor Party was a car, it would be called a jalopy or a clunker. The wheels are falling off, the rain is getting in, the equipment is faulty, and the engine can't be relied upon. This has been a bad week for the Labor government. Labor luminary Bill Kelty had some very insightful things to say about the performance of the Labor prime minister and the Labor treasurer, and I'll come to them in a moment. The Prime Minister's colleagues and the Treasurer's colleagues have been backgrounding anonymously, as you'd expect, about their performance on the economy. I'll come back to that. Of course, today we had a very, very necessary backdown by the Labor Party, by the Labor government, in regard to a very, very poor, heartless, harmful policy decision that would have hurt veterans and their families, and the coalition welcomes the decision by the government today to back down on its plan to hurt veterans with a $5,000 cap on their ability to access allied health services.

Then we had a very half-hearted defence by Senator McAllister, representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, trying to defend the Labor government's very, very poor policy decision to hurt 1.3 million pensioners by abandoning the private health insurance rebate that is available to people over the age of 65. My great prediction is that that is now the next battleground, having successfully secured the government's decision to back down on its harmful, hurtful treatment of veterans and their families. On that particular point, I want to make this observation. It is powerful when Independent senators work with Greens senators and work with coalition senators, coming to parliament, amplifying the concerns and the voices of veterans and their families, forcing the government to a very significant rethink. I remind you that on every occasion in this Senate that Labor senators had to stand with coalition and independent and Greens senators against this policy initiative, they chose to vote for—