QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:11): We know that Australians are facing real pressures. We know that the world is more uncertain. And we know that Australians want government and the parliament to deliver real change for them.

And that is why those of us on this side are doing that. I'm asked what is standing in the way, and I think we all know it is the three right-wing parties, consistently. Every time you come here for a tax cut, for assistance, for support, for working families, for increases to the minimum wage, for penalty rates protection, for protection against unfair dismissal or for different groups of workers, those opposite cannot abide it.

They cannot abide it, consistently trying to stand in the way of change. All they have—all they want—is Australians to be angry. They have nothing positive to offer.

And Senator Bragg, with whom I've been happy to talk so much this week, said this: 'The Liberal Party should have done more to develop policies on tax super, IR and small business, but we vacated the field.'