Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

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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