Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (15:12): I thank the member for Parramatta for her question. The single biggest debate that we will have in this parliament over this 12 months will be about the economy. It is a debate that requires you to make some fundamental choices and a debate that requires you to define who you stand for, who you stand with and who you seek to benefit. We as a government have made our choices. We are determined to stand up for the interests of working people. We are determined to add to the package of policies we have already enacted to support working families. Those policies include the Paid Parental Leave scheme that the government brought into existence. They include putting more money into supporting families with the costs of child care than ever before. They include our focus on early childhood education and schools and making sure that people can get better healthcare services. They include the tax cuts that we have delivered so far. They include the changes that we have made in various payments, including through the pension, to support families at all stages of life, whether it be from the birth of a new child or from when mum or dad or grand mum or grandad requires the assistance of the pension. This year we will add to that package of policies: new family payment arrangements for families with teenagers, tax cuts, pension increases, family payment increases and an expanded education tax rebate. Until this government enacted it, there was not assistance with the cost of getting kids to school. Now we will broaden that assistance. At the same time, we will be acting to build the new economy of the future. We delivered the foundation stones last year and it was not easy but it has been done. We will seize a clean energy future. We will get for working people a fair share of the resources boom that is underway in our nation. We will understand the changes happening in the global economy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and as we see spectacular growth in our region and we will seize those opportunities for Australia's future. I want us to come out as a winner in this time of change in the global economy and in our region. We will deliver a new skills package and we will build on our education reforms because the economy of the future will require higher and higher and higher levels of skills. We will continue to roll out the National Broadband Network because yesterday's infrastructure is not good enough to build the new economy—and we will ensure that it is a diversified economy, one where mining is not the only source of strength, where we still have a manufacturing industry, where we still have people making cars in this country, where we still have a vibrant tourism industry and where we have a vibrant services sector. That is the debate of this year. It is about the employment of Australians. It is about their ability to get a job. It is about their ability to do that today and in the economy we will build for the future. On the other side of politics, we understand that in this debate they are for standing still. They are for the privileged interests of a few rather than for the many working families who need to benefit from our resources boom. They are for not moving to a clean energy future in any way that makes sense. They are for ripping the National Broadband Network out of the ground. They are for education cuts in schools, cuts to apprenticeships and beyond. This is the debate of 2012, and I am very happy to say to the Leader of the Opposition: bring it on.