The ACT Party opposes this bill, for the fundamental reason that we oppose the underlying changes that make it necessary. We understand perfectly that the rationale is to ensure that more people receive the minimum family tax credit in order to maintain the difference between working and receiving a benefit. This legislation has been made necessary by a Government Budget that has nothing in it for people whose main way of getting money is actually working. It is a Budget of handouts; as Ruth Richardson would say, driven more by politics than economics, and this Government's desire to pay off its political supporters.