House debates

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Questions without Notice

Cost Of Living

2:24 pm

Photo of Jim ChalmersJim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The alternative on their watch was higher inflation in a quarterly sense. Wages were lower, and the waste and rorts were feeding huge deficits in the budget. The tax cuts were skewed to people already on the highest incomes. The point I'm making is that they haven't learned and they haven't changed. If anything, they're more divided and more divisive than they've ever been.

That's why I say to the people of Australia watching that documentary on the ABC: if you thought the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments in the Nemesis doco were bad, we now know from this tax debacle on that side of the House that the dregs of those governments are even worse.

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