Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Maribyrnong from moving the following motion forthwith:

That the House:

(1)notes the Prime Minister:

(a)has today introduced cuts to family payments which will mean over a million families will be worse off;

(b)is hurting Australian families with his cuts to family payments and paid parental leave to give a $50 billion handout to big businesses, including the big banks;

(c)is punishing some of the most vulnerable people in Australia, including pensioners and carers, with his robo-debt mess; and

(2)therefore, condemns the Prime Minister for being:

(a)so out of touch that his hopelessly divided Government punishes families, pensioners, carers and new mums while giving a $50 billion handout to big businesses;

(b)unable to explain how cutting $2.7 billion in family payments leaves families better off; and

(c)so distracted by the chaos within his Government that he's only focused on looking after himself and not Australian families.

Leave is not granted.

I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Maribyrnong from moving the following motion forthwith:

That the House:

(1)notes the Prime Minister:

(a)has today introduced cuts to family payments which will mean over a million families will be worse off;

(b)is hurting Australian families with his cuts to family payments and paid parental leave to give a $50 billion handout to big businesses, including the big banks;

(c)is punishing some of the most vulnerable people in Australia, including pensioners and carers, with his robo-debt mess; and

(2)therefore, condemns the Prime Minister for being:

(a)so out of touch that his hopelessly divided Government punishes families, pensioners, carers and new mums while giving a $50 billion handout to big businesses;

(b)unable to explain how cutting $2.7 billion in family payments leaves families better off; and

(c)so distracted by the chaos within his Government that he's only focused on looking after himself and not Australian families.

Mr 'Harbourside Mansion' is attacking the standard of living of over a million Australian families. The story of these cuts today is that the Prime Minister is taking $2.7 billion from Australian families and yet he proposes giving $7.4 billion to big banks in tax giveaways. This Prime Minister is seriously the most out-of-touch personality to ever hold this great office of Prime Minister: tough on pensioners, soft on banks; tax cuts for millionaires and payment cuts for Australian families. This is another version of the Liberal-National version of robbing Peter to pay Paul—

Mr Joyce interjecting—

Mr Pyne interjecting—

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