The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.

The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.

There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.