You need to get out more, treasurer told

Social Services Minister Christian Porter has used an old hit song by Shannon Noll to make the case for changes to the family tax benefit program.

Social Services Minister Christian Porter has used singer-songwriter Shannon Noll's first big hit to illustrate the need to overhaul family tax benefits.

It was a "very different world" when the Howard government introduced supplementary payments in 2004.

"Shannon Noll was number one on the hits," Mr Porter told reporters in Canberra after introducing a package of changes to parliament on Wednesday.

That prompted Treasurer Scott Morrison to say: "Still a fan. He is from the (Sutherland) Shire.

To which Mr Porter suggested: "You need to get out more".

Noll's debut single What About Me was the highest selling single of 2004.


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