Ms COLLINS (Franklin) (15:48): What a load of rubbish we have heard from those opposite. They come in here and they talk about opportunity for young people when they are the ones reducing the opportunities for young people. They come in here and try and say that it is all Labor's fault. They are in government. They doubled the deficit in six months. They are the ones responsible for their own decisions. They are the ones responsible for cutting programs like Youth Connections. They are the ones responsible for the $80 billion cut to health and education so that young people right across the country will not be getting the education they want, deserve and will need for jobs. They are their cuts, and they need to take responsibility for them. The people on this side, the opposition, do not accept this rhetoric about young people and we do not accept that they are genuine about opportunities for young people, because they could not possibly be, given what is in their budget. We heard from the last member that people are scared. Too right people are scared—they are not scared by what we are saying; they are scared by the budget. If they go out into their electorates and talk to people, that is what they will hear. We have got teenagers terrified now about whether or not they are going to be able to afford to go to a university. They are terrified about going to a university— Mrs Andrews: You're scaremongering. Ms COLLINS: It's not my scaremongering; it's your budget that is the problem. It is your budget that is scaring people. It is really frightening people out there. Those young people are frightened and terrified about whether or not they are going to be able to afford an education. What is worse, of course, about all of this is that we have heard that young people who don't have a job and can't find a job are going to have to live on nothing for six months when their Newstart is cut off—nothing: no income, no support, nothing for six months. People under 30—what are they supposed to do? Are they going to rely on their parents at 28? Ms Scott: They can work for the dole. Ms COLLINS: They are going to work for the dole, are they, the member for Lindsay? Work for the dole at 28 if they have already got a tertiary qualification or a trade certificate, are they? Is that what they are going to do? I think that they will really feel valued when they have got a HECS debt and a degree and you are making them go and work for the dole, particularly given work for the dole— Mr Mitchell interjecting— Mrs Andrews: I would ask that Deputy Speaker Mitchell withdraw that unparliamentary term. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Craig Kelly ): If it would assist the House, I request the Deputy Speaker to withdraw. Mr Mitchell: Mr Acting Deputy Speaker, I am happy to withdraw a term that was used for someone yelling out that is not— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I just ask you to withdraw. Ms COLLINS: These 28-year-olds, who may have an electrician's or plumber's trade certificate or a university degree, will be relying on their parents or having to rely on charity to survive. What do they think this is going to do to those communities where there are not enough jobs for people? What do they actually think is going to happen? We have got a whole range of community organisations out there saying what is going to happen, and they are saying that poverty and homelessness will increase. I hope you are really proud of that on the other side, because that is what your budget is going to do to people. It is not okay to say that people need to live on fresh air for six months of the year. What is worse is, if you analyse the budget, they could be living on fresh air for six months of more than one year; it could be six months of several years until they find a job—six months each and every year that they have to live on nothing. That is what you are doing to young people. You are hiking up their HECS fees so that they cannot afford to go to university. You are increasing their debt. You are denying them proper education. You have ripped money out of trade training centres. Ms Ley: On a point of order, the member has been in the House long enough not to say the word 'you'. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I request the member for Franklin to direct her comments through the chair. Ms COLLINS: Those opposite are obviously concerned and interrupting my flow. They are very concerned—and they should be concerned if they are not—that all this money is being ripped out of trade training centres, it is being ripped out of apprenticeships, it is being ripped out of schools and, of course, they are trying to put up HECS fees for students. It is not okay. If you really want opportunity in this country, if you really want to grow jobs, if you really want educated people in the future to innovate and to create more jobs in this country, they need proper support and proper programs. They need programs that work, like Youth Connections, which had an 80 per cent success rate for students who were disengaged. Why would you cut it? Because you do not understand what it does and you do not understand what your budget is doing. (Time expired)