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

If members opposite do not like our policies to help people live longer and more productive working lives, they should tell us what their policies are.

This was supposed to be the year of ideas. Give us one. So far the only idea they have come up with is to spend $100 million on the ATO to raise $1 billion. Well, next time they will be telling us to spend $1 billion on the ATO to raise $10 billion. That is the problem. All they can think of is spending more and taxing more. They just cannot help themselves. I actually think that deep down the Leader of the Opposition is better than that, and I would ask him to start demonstrating that now.

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