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The member for Grayndler is warned!

CT4 Costello, Peter, MPMr COSTELLO—he was rising to the occasion—

recorded as the day when the social compact that has governed this nation for the last 100 years was torn up.

I think what he had in mind is that, if this parliament and its people should last for another 100 years, men would still say this was fundamental injustice day. Let me say what has happened since fundamental injustice day on 30 June 1999. We cut tax on 1 July 2000; we cut tax on 1 July 2003; we cut tax on 1 July 2004; we cut tax on 1 July 2005, 2006, 2007; and we will cut it again on 1 July 2008. Sometimes in public life, you come across people who have lofty rhetoric which is not matched by underlying values and underlying policy.

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