I rise today to speak in opposition to the government's plan to increase the GST. I have made it very clear to my constituents in Richmond that I am fighting hard against the Prime Minister's and the National Party's unfair plan to increase the GST to 15 per cent. As I have often said, National Party choices hurt, and in my region in northern New South Wales the National Party have already made the choice to unfairly cut the age pension, cut family payments, cut local jobs and cut local health services. Now they want to increase the GST to 15 per cent.