Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Prime Minister, and simply note this: the Australian people understand that what we are looking at is a package of reforms that will grow jobs and that will grow the economy. They understand that the last time this government was involved in serious questions about improving our tax system it involved a raft of measures that saw taxes cut. And I recall that although those opposite campaigned against them and railed against them and went on and on and on about them, by the time they got to government they rolled none of them back—they changed none of them—because they knew there was a package of reforms that improved our economy. Those opposite simply do not want to get into that sort of discussion. As the Prime Minister says, they want to salami slice it down and treat the Australian people like mugs.

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