The penalty rate cuts come on top of Liberal cuts to family payments, childcare, and pensions. Wages are falling and too many people are working fewer hours than they want. And the gap between rich and poor is the worst it’s been in 75 years too.

Under the Liberals, families, including young people, are finding it harder to make ends meet.

Meanwhile, company profits have soared – up 26 per cent in 2016 alone – and the Liberals want to give them a $50 billion tax handout to fatten their profits even more.

Why do Ann Sudmalis and the Liberals think you should take a pay cut so they can give big business a tax cut? How is that fair?

Their priorities are all wrong.

It was there for all to see. The first question in Question Time was asked by Bill Shorten in referring to comments made by the Member for Gilmore Ann Sudmalis in describing the penalty rate cuts as a gift.

Shorten smelt blood and he went for the PM, asking if he supported his colleague’s comments.

Here’s some advice for Ann Sudmalis: when making comment regarding such matters consider this fact, when someone has something taken away,  it is not a gift. You are quoted as saying that it was not a wage cut. Then what was it then?

The survival in the theatre of parliament is reliant upon a perception of fairness and understanding so my advice is for Ann Sudmalis is to project her comments in a more measured fashion as not to cause embarrassment for those required to defend them.

She appears to be displaying a tin ear to the plight of the less privileged in her constituency. Her language at times is ill founded and lacks relevance. 

The display of empathy at times would be received more cordially by the those affected when adverse decisions are made against them and, it can be argued, not in their best interests. 

Ann Sudmalis says that the cut in the Sunday rates is a gift to young people.

Does Mrs Sudmalis really believe that local retailers are going to flood Sunday opening hours and employ hundreds of young people in the Shoalhaven?

What guarantees does Ms Sudmalis have that any extra Sunday jobs will emerge?

The only gift is to the Sunday employers who will pocket the wage cut plus benefit from the surcharges if they are running cafes or restaurants.

Does this thinking match the government's intent to give businesses a $50 to $100 million tax benefit in the false hope that it will trigger trickle-down economics?

 Now that’s a gift.

I recently attended the primary carnival at Nowra. I parked my car up Colyer Avenue close to St Michael’s as there was no better opportunity. The walk to the pool and back did not worry me as it wasn’t the end of the earth and we would have accepted the distance in the past. I was amazed at the number that were apparently booked for parking illegally.

I have no problem with this. The signposting was evident for all to see and traffic crowding accentuates the possibility of accidents caused by children and carers stepping out from behind parked cars. Whether you agree with the parking restrictions or not to have to apply consistency top the law. Don’t see it as a money making episode. See it as protecting our youth in an organised activity.