House debates Questions without Notice

Cost of Living

Wednesday, 26 March 2025 House of Representatives

Jim Chalmers

Jim Chalmers Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer

2:26 pm

It will help them, with their combined tax cut of $50 a week, with the cost of living. If the honourable member really cared about the cost-of-living pressures that people are confronting, he would have voted for tax cuts. The consequence of the position that the shadow Treasurer talked the honourable member into is that a Liberal Party came in here, given the opportunity to vote for lower income taxes, and instead voted for higher income taxes. That's why I'm told that there's a bit of chirp on the back bench, because people don't think this is a good idea. And we don't think it's a good idea either. We think—

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