Through you, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would say that the bottom line is simply that their campaign could never have got through the guidelines as set down by the Auditor-General and then watered down under Allan Hawke.

As I said, the bottom line at every turn is that this big new supertax is adverse to the interests of senior Australians. It is a tax on super. If you tax something, you get less of it. Every dollar that goes into Mr Rudd’s pocket is one dollar less in superannuation recipients’ pockets—