Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I agree. I will take all of your interjections. I also love the Prime Minister and his own words. When asked to describe his own first year in power, he said, 'So far, so good.' I mean, I do not really want to harp on it, but remember the thought bubbles that came through about the GST? There was all this chest thumping and you could see all these conservative commentators getting excited and the business lobby was getting going, and the backbenchers. He marched them all up to the top of the hill—and then straight back down again. And then we had the bizarre notion of the state income tax: getting the premiers to set your income tax.

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