Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Higgins, Australian Labor Party) | Hansard source

What's the best cure for the winter blues? To the list of sunshine, exercise and good food, we can add money! From 1 July, today, every Aussie will be getting a tax cut. A nurse on $76,000 will be getting a tax cut of just over $1,500, a teacher on $87,000 now will be getting a tax cut of just over $1,800 and a sparky on $93,000 will be getting a tax cut of just over two grand. Pay down your debt, pay your bills, save up for a holiday or buy an air fryer—whatever tickles your fancy.

New parents get an extra two weeks of paid parental leave, taking it up to 22 weeks—more time with bub, more time with each other and more money. What can be better than that? Every household will be getting $300 off their energy bills.

Aussies work hard. They want to upskill and reskill. They're flocking to our free TAFE courses and they're going to uni. We are acknowledging their efforts with a tax cut and a HECS credit for three million students. That's what rewarding aspiration looks like.

There are 2.6 million workers who will be getting a pay rise. This will be their third consecutive one, adding an extra $143 per week to their pay. For the quiet heroes of the pandemic, what's better than thanking them is actually giving them a pay rise, and we are.

Guess who opposed all of this? That's right; under the Libs, Aussies worked harder for longer, with their pay flatlining. Labor wants Aussies to earn more and keep more of what they earn.

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