Ms Louise Bayliss:

I will come in and Ms Smith will follow. I thank the committee for this engagement and for the questions, which showed the members read our submissions and are taking these issues seriously. I appreciate that. This is something close to our hearts. I think everybody feels that about child poverty. When talking about this issue, it is a disgrace when we think that 17.1% of children in lone parent families are living in poverty. We must address this situation urgently. We hear the headline rate of 8.8% of children living in poverty, but what we should really be doing is drilling down into that figure and stating that 17% of children in lone parent families are living in poverty. That is where poverty is situated and that is where we need the targeted supports to go. However, we want all children lifted out of poverty, obviously.