Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a great pleasure to follow the member for Tangney and to hear his fantasy, his fiction, when he talks about the performance of the government. It is pure fiction when he talks about how the Liberal Party can save Australia. To know that, all we have to do is look at how the budget has blown out under this government. It is all fantasy.

When talking about a plan for Australia's future, the one thing we know is that we have a government whose only plan is to push through the 2014 budget. The one thing all Australians know is that you cannot trust a Liberal government when it comes to the GST and taxing Australians on low and middle incomes. For that matter, the one thing Australians know is that you cannot trust the Liberal government when it comes to taxing, because the highest taxing governments in Australia's history have all been Liberal governments.

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