Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The point of the reference to the member for Wentworth’s then contribution to Australia’s national debate on tax reform and the absent debate since he has become shadow Treasurer, as Ergas did its disappearing act, is that, if we are going to have a mature national conversation about tax reform, we are going to put our ideas out there in due season—that is why we have the Secretary to the Treasury at work—and I would assume that those opposite would do so as well. But, instead, what we had on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme last week was them standing up time and time again saying they could not support the legislation we put forward, because they had an alternative view. When asked what their alternative view was, they could not find one or agree on one. Frankly, the nation deserves better.

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