Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Today in question time the Treasurer again asserted that Labor has a plan to increase taxes. This is wrong. I draw to the attention of the House my comments during the Tax Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Reduction) Bill 2007. Labor supported all the tax measures in the budget. I quote from that speech:

Since the 2005 budget, the mining boom has delivered even more revenue than the coalition—

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