Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management) (14:50): Thank you, Senator Rice. What I say to those people is that they can have confidence that a Labor government, under Anthony Albanese as Prime Minister, will stand with them in providing them with the payments they require and in assisting them to find work. People can always have confidence in a Labor government to do that; that is something that is core to our beliefs. Senator Van interjecting— Senator WATT: I notice senators over that side are laughing at that proposition. That's really something you'd need to ask yourself, Senator Van. The PRESIDENT: Minister Watt, I'd ask you to direct your questions to the president and answer Senator Rice's question. Senator WATT: What I say to those people, as I say, is they can have confidence that a Labor government will support them, and we will continue to make systems and programs better and improve them. We will not have a callous attitude towards people who are unemployed in the way we saw repeatedly from the former government, and we will continue to make these programs better.