Question time in federal parliament

WHAT WE LEARNED

Australia has the lowest level of welfare dependency among working-age people in over three decades.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN

The coalition is on the side of Australians who want to get off welfare and into a job.

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT

The government has failed to deliver on its election promises.

WHAT THEY SAID

"We're on this side, they're on that side - get used to it." - Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack reminds Labor who is in government.

"The question is why you misled the public." - Labor frontbencher Linda Burney to Government Services Minister Stuart Robert.

"Now they seek to stop it in some faux degree of indignation that the income compliance lovechild of the godparents isn't what they hoped it to be." - Mr Robert on Labor having invented 'robodebt'.

"I will just call the prime minister to address the questions contained within that statement." - Speaker Tony Smith tries to make sense of a Bob Katter contribution.