Today is the last sitting day of parliament before the budget-the fourth budget of this Abbott-Turnbull government. The people of Australia have every reason to be worried. The people in my electorate of Paterson have every right to be worried because this government has its priorities all wrong. Today, and all this week, it has been squabbling and horse trading in the Senate trying to pass 16,400 a year. That equates to 4.4 billion in savings from one-third as many families with a far greater propensity to afford them than our poorest families. So, on one hand, this government wants to give 440 a year from a family on 540 a year from a single-parent family on 17.70 an hour. Raising the wages of the lowest paid-how could that not be efficient? It is the most efficient way. I call on this government to do more to settle this inequality.
