House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Tuesday, 28 October 2014 House of Representatives

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

3:00 pm

The whole premise of the Leader of the Opposition's question is false. The whole premise of the question is false. Fuel excise indexation is not a new tax. It is precisely the tax that the Hawke government put in place in the 1980s. A modest co-payment for Medicare is a fee for service, and it is precisely the measure that the former Hawke government put in place back in the early 1990s.

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