Mr STEPHEN JONES (Throsby) (16:55): I rise to enter this debate on the matter of public importance and talk about some of the families that those on the other side do not have the guts to talk about. They do not have the guts to talk about these families because they are doing them in the eye. They cannot look them in the eye because they are doing them in the eye. I will start with the families of the auto workers in this country. These are the 46,000 families around the country who rely on the automotive industry to sustain a living and to bring a wage home to look after their families and their kids. There are 46,000 workers—200,000 workers when you look at the downstream supply chain involved in the automotive industry—and those on the other side want to shut this industry down. They use weasel words, but we know what their real agenda is and the member for Mayo has belled the cat: they see this as useless government assistance to an industry that adds no value. We stand for these families in the auto industry because we believe in the value that they bring to the Australian economy. There is another group of families that those on the other side will not talk to. That is the group of families who work in the steel industry. Those on the other side want to rip out $300 million from the Steel Transformation Plan because they do not believe in the steel industry in this country—$300 million that is going to keep open the doors of the two companies that are our two principal steel producers in this country. Those on the other side voted against the Steel Transformation Plan. Is it any wonder that those on the other side will not talk about the families of the steel workers in this country. But it does not stop there. There are the 12,000 public servants whose jobs they want to cut and send to the unemployment scrapheap. They will not talk about those families and the families of those workers—12,000 Australians who they want to make unemployed to fill the $70 billion black hole in their budget. I will tell you about another group of families—and this is an eternal shame—that they will not talk about. That is the families of disabled kids. To their eternal shame, their Liberal brothers and sisters in the New South Wales parliament cared so little about the families of disabled kids that they left the kids stranded at the bus stop. They did not even organise a bus to take these poor kids to school on the hottest day in New South Wales this summer. Is it no wonder that those on the other side will not talk about the families of disabled kids. They do not even have the ability to say, 'The National Disability Insurance Scheme is something that we believe in and we are going to put into place.' Those on this side of the House stand for the families of disabled kids—families struggling to give those kids some semblance of normality in their lives. And what about the families who have opened their doors to poor disadvantaged kids to provide a foster service for them? They will not talk about those families either, because their brothers and sisters in New South Wales are doing exactly the same thing. It is the most heartless policy of slashing the payments made to those families in order to divert that money to some other Liberal boondoggle in the state of New South Wales. We on this side of the House in this parliament stand for those families. You will not hear it from those on the other side of the House, because there are so many families they cannot look in the eye because they are so busy doing them in the eye. While they are doing those families in the eye, we are busy creating decent jobs with decent wages, we are busy keeping interest rates low and unemployment low and we are busy ensuring that we are building the economy for the future so that these families have jobs for themselves and jobs for their kids. That is the stark contrast between those on this side of the House and those on that side of the House. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Hon. BC Scott ): Order! The discussion is concluded.