Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

After weeks back in the electorates for the members of the House of Representatives we returned today to find that nothing in this place has changed. We still have a government without a plan. We have a government without an agenda; unless of course we count their plan to continue to claw back money through their dubious robo-debt system from those who have ever relied on our safety net, or a plan to do yet another review of the NDIS. I believe that's the 21st review, with no action pending. Or unless we count the fact that they've got no idea about how to write a plan.

We can see that; there is no economic plan, there is no energy plan and there is no plan to address global warming and pollution. There is no plan to increase the number of home care packages or to ensure that our elderly are treated responsibly. What we get instead are Australians waiting—waiting for their congestion-busting infrastructure out into the forward estimates; waiting for home care packages; elderly Australians waiting for pension applications to be processed; and waiting for youth allowance support for up to a semester.

What we have here is a government without an agenda and without a plan, but Australians still waiting. Nothing has changed since we last sat in this chamber.

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