Andrew Southcott (Boothby, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I do not want to be too hard on the member for Rankin. He is, after all, a comic genius. But we find ourselves in a very unusual position in proposing tax cuts to the Australian parliament in that the Australian Labor Party are supporting the cuts. They have changed their position of 2005, when they opposed tax cuts. They opposed the government’s full tax cuts in 2000 that were part of A New Tax System. While there is reluctant, begrudging support for our tax cuts—

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