Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

That's certainly not what I said, Senator Hughes. What I said was that further work is going to need to be undertaken in relation to the design of the needs assessment process and that a decision will be made in the budget context around payment.

If anybody wanted an insight into the dysfunction of the coalition's approach to these questions, they need only have listened to the last 10 minutes of this debate. The problem here is that no reform was undertaken in relation to these issues over the course of the period 2013 to 2022. No reform.