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For almost four years Suzanna Sheed has started each parliamentary sitting week by moving the same motion.

The independent MP for Shepparton, a rural electorate of almost 50,000 people in northern Victoria, asks for a non-government business program to be reinstated in the state's lower house.

They're having a real impact on people right now, so we've been conscious of that. But what we do as a government is we don't have knee-jerk reactions, we think through carefully how we can best provide the sort of support that we believe the federal government can deliver.