Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, he was big on that. He continued:

We are one of the few major countries that does not have some form of taxation for these circumstances—

get this—

where tax is the most equitable, the most efficient to collect and the least painful for individual taxpayer.

That is what you are going to get from a finance minister in a Labor Rudd government. Those are the sorts of beliefs that they hold dearly, not the struggling pensioners who are being rewarded by the good economic management of the Howard-Costello government.

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