Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

That is the Captain Clunker approach to electric vehicle policy. It's to pretend that they love lower taxes until they're asked to actually vote for it. They pretend they like lower taxes until it interferes and collides with their outdated, obsolete, out-of-touch ideology. There is no reason to oppose this legislation except that they physically cannot bring themselves to support a good idea, and this is what we see from the leader of the leftovers over here—a pretty clear pattern. He boycotted the jobs summit and now he's boycotting the future. They aren't the Liberal Party anymore; they're the Luddite party. They have a leader who is deadset on division, defined by his denial, his division and his destruction, fronting the dregs of a departed government that the Australian people ditched for a reason.

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