Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: The point I make is that, when people are having the purchasing power of the money they earn reduced by a 6 percent rate of inflation, that's a tax on their pay packet, without a question. If the Government doesn't do something about reining in its own expenses, that trend won't stop. Look at the increase in rental prices. Extraordinary. A couple of hundred dollars on in the last three years. How do people do it? Of course, it exacerbates because then there is the accommodation supplement that goes into that, as well. This is not a Government that knows where it's going. It is a Government absolutely enthralled by its own spin.