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Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek has slammed the Liberals and Nationals this morning, calling the parties a “bin fire”.

“They don’t know who their leader is going to be from one week to the next,” she told Seven’s Sunrise.

Plibersek also responded to recent polling showing One Nation surging in popularity.

“As One Nation does better in the polls, I think it’s actually really important that journalists, the Australian public more broadly, start to ask some more specific details of their policies.

“It’s all very well to go around as a party of grievance and complain about things, point out things that they feel are wrong. They need to get out there with some detailed policies if they really want to be tested in the way the major parties are,” she said.

Rather than disagreeing with Plibersek’s assertion that One Nation was a grievance party, Barnaby Joyce, appearing alongside the minister on their regular Sunrise panel, seemed to agree.

“Tanya gives us and the Labor Party so much material to protest about,” he said. “It’s so easy to be a grievance party when you’re the government.”