We supported this year's Budget, because we want to see benefits lifted, we want to see people's ability to fully participate in their society, but we do not just want to live in the past and look at the poor decisions of past Governments. We want to project to a future where our welfare system is fit for purpose. And so, while we think it's great to see an outright rejection of the rhetoric laid out in the "mother of all Budgets" in the 1990s, we now see it as an opportunity to match this rhetoric with action and policy that meets the needs of our communities, because, before the "mother of all Budgets", our welfare system was already broken. We had a welfare system that still accepted that people who found support and relationships didn't deserve to have their income with them—that they were made to be dependent on their partner. We still had a welfare system that accepted that people outside of paid employment didn't make meaningful substantive contributions to society. So there is far more work to do.