I want to question my colleagues: how much are we willing to accept? Are we willing to accept children going without? Are we going to accept people being put through dehumanising processes at Work and Income, having to justify every purchase to get the help that they need to survive? Are we going to recognise the toxic stress that families are experiencing, as a result of this hardship, that leads to ill health? Because when I hear the National Party talking about "bottom feeders", I hear them talking about dehumanising the communities that they themselves have been complicit in putting them through hardship. They were the ones who introduced those punitive sanctions that we are just starting to roll back. 