House debates

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024, Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living — Medicare Levy) Bill 2024; Second Reading

10:40 am

Photo of Barnaby JoyceBarnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) | Hansard source

What we are seeing at the moment is precisely that.

I want to go through some other items. In our area, getting kids to school means that mothers have to drive them, because we don't have bus services. The mothers have to drive them, to be quite frank, because the guy may be working in another job having to bring money in—or the guy may be at home. To be honest, that's not as much, obviously. But, because they have to drive, they can't have a job. They don't have a job because their whole day is occupied in driving the kids to school and picking them up from school and driving them home.

An honourable member interjecting

I just said that there are also fathers. You have the opportunity of two-income families, and we don't.

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