QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:15): No, and what I would say to you, Senator, is two things. First, if you are so keen on tax reform, we look forward to you passing the tax changes that people in your party, as well as people in the community, have been calling for. I look forward to that and to you supporting that.

The second point I would make is that, as a Labor government, we have delivered measures to address cost-of-living pressures: to roll out more urgent care clinics, to enable energy price relief, to provide more protections for workers, and to provide higher wages for working people, whether it's in the childcare sector, in the aged-care sector or people on the minimum wage.

We will always do all that we are able to address cost-of-living challenges. There is obviously more to do, and this government is determined to continue to deliver the change that is required in the face of increased cost of living and higher pressures for so many Australian workers. But one thing I am very clear about is that the way to confront what we see across the chamber is to seek to bring people together and to remind working people that those opposite are more interested in working together against the interests of workers, against the interests of public services and against the interests of more universal health care.

That is what those opposite are more interested in doing. I invite the Greens to take an approach different to the approach they so often take, which is to believe that their job is to attack this side of politics rather than recognising what is happening on that side of politics, the conservative side of politics, and what is at stake. We on this side understand that, and we are up for this argument.

The PRESIDENT: Senator Waters, first supplementary?