QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Women, Minister for Government Services and Manager of Government Business in the Senate) (14:43): I thank Senator Hanson for the question. The government will not support the policy that you announced this morning. We've seen it from those opposite a number of times, where they want to attack superannuation and end superannuation.

This is the party that built superannuation, and we will fight to protect it. That's, in a nutshell, the government's position. We don't support the weakening of a system that is there to ensure that people are able to live a dignified retirement and not be dependent on the aged pension.

It is a long-term investment. It starts when you enter the workforce. You are able to build up over time retirement savings that give you that dignified retirement and don't require you to live or exist on the aged pension, and that is worth fighting for.

We over on this side of the chamber have done whatever we can to support people with cost-of-living pressures, whether it be in energy bill relief, rebuilding Medicare, cheaper medicines, building more housing, making sure people can get into housing in a more affordable way— Senator Henderson interjecting— Senator GALLAGHER: It's no surprise to me that you're laughing, Senator Henderson, because you opposed us on housing, just like the rest on that side of the chamber have opposed everything we have done to increase housing supply and to make housing more affordable for Australians.

We've fought to implement those policies, and we will continue to protect superannuation from those whose political ideology is to end superannuation, to reduce and weaken superannuation. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson, first supplementary?