Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (14:26): I certainly want Australians to achieve their economic potential. That is what I want. I want all Australians to achieve their economic potential and, for some of them, perhaps for many of them, that will mean working to an age that might not have been readily thought of in times past, because we are living longer and healthier lives. We are absolutely living longer and healthier lives. In the days when the pension age was set at 65, life expectancy at birth was under 60. Today, it is over 80. It is going up all the time, and healthy life expectancy is improving even faster and further. I acknowledge that. Members opposite used to acknowledge that. Early in their time in government they raised the pension age to 67. When they proposed this, they received full support from the then opposition, now the government. When members opposite came up with sensible policies we supported of them, because that is what an intelligent and constructive political party does. When its opposition proposes something intelligent and constructive, it engages and it supports. That is what it does. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Member for Charlton! Mr ABBOTT: I think it makes sense to give more Australians more opportunities to live longer and more productive working lives. Why wouldn't members opposite agree with that? Why wouldn't they be prepared to enter into an intelligent national conversation about this? That is all we want. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Member for Bendigo will desist. Mr ABBOTT: If members opposite do not like our policies to help people live longer and more productive working lives, they should tell us what their policies are. This was supposed to be the year of ideas. Give us one. So far the only idea they have come up with is to spend $100 million on the ATO to raise $1 billion. Well, next time they will be telling us to spend $1 billion on the ATO to raise $10 billion. That is the problem. All they can think of is spending more and taxing more. They just cannot help themselves. I actually think that deep down the Leader of the Opposition is better than that, and I would ask him to start demonstrating that now.