Jason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the terrific member for Higgins for her question. Last week I told the House about what the tax cuts mean for teachers. For a teacher on, say, 95 grand a year, it'll mean a tax cut of more than 2,000 bucks. But, of course, it's not just teachers who work in our schools. A teachers aid on 65 grand a year will get a tax cut of more than 1,300 bucks, a school cleaner on 40 grand a year will get a tax cut of more than 600 bucks and a school bus driver on 70 grand a year will get a tax cut of more than 1,400 bucks.

Every taxpayer gets a tax cut; that's the point. That's why Australians support it, and that's why, over the last few weeks, the opposition have been behaving like some kind of beginner's Bikram yoga class—all hot and sweaty and desperately trying to contort themselves into a position that we know they really don't want to be in. They hate it, but they're voting for it. Why? Because they know that Australians want Albo's tax cuts. Not only that—they know Australians deserve Albo's tax cuts, and that's what they're going to get on 1 July.

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