Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am not going to speculate on what measures are in the budget. I appreciate that you, Senator Murray, have now asked that question twice, and I have given the same answer now twice: that we have got no intention. But it is anticipated that our tax cuts will, over time, result in an additional 2.5 million hours of work, being approximately 65,000 additional people in the workforce. That is the difference with the tax cuts we are proposing. They are about boosting productivity, boosting incentives to get back to work and delivering on the challenges that you, the opposition, have left us. But you are not going to be able to slide away playing both sides of the street. Your leader once said— (Time expired)