Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I congratulate—

The CHAIRMAN: Order! To the chair, Minister, and to the chair, Senator Ludlam.

I will leave it to the minister to put out the press statement that you put 200 teachers into the schools; that is fantastic. I do not think it is our job to come in here at this hour and congratulate you on all the great stuff that is going on, but it is great that it is. We are trying to tease out the degree to which there is evidence that threatening to withdraw people's welfare payments contributes to getting their kids to school. I would not have thought it was that difficult a concept. I suspect that, again, we are going to have to agree to disagree. I do not know if other senators want to make contributions, but I am happy to move these amendments now and then move on through some of the others that Senator Siewert has prepared.