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

That is what I am proposing. Members opposite should know that what is supported by this side of the chamber are lower, simpler, fairer taxes. As for the GST, there can and will be no change unless all the states want it because it is a tax that belongs to them—or at least that is what I thought until I discovered, watching the news last night, that members opposite, when they were in government, commissioned modelling on a rise in the GST to 12.5 per cent.

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