QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator McALLISTER (New South Wales—Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) (15:26): We on this side of the chamber built Medicare. We back the PBS. We built universal superannuation.

Those opposite are always trying to tear down those essential safety nets, but there is one safety net that those opposite are always very good at protecting. It's not Medicare and it's not super; it is in fact the great Liberal Party safety net. This is a safety net which ensures that those opposite will always be looked after, whatever befalls them.

The senator for higher taxes, Senator Hume, is now the shadow minister for finance. The shadow minister for housing is comparing teenagers to cats and dogs. He sees communism wherever he looks.

The member for Goldstein has become the shadow treasurer, and that actually requires no further elaboration. On the evidence, the great Liberal Party safety net is one of the most effective pieces of social protection in the world.