Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm talking about the temporary one-year decrease that they have said they will put out there. The Morrison leftovers—they've adopted the policy of the Morrison government just like they did in 2022. In the budget in 2022, they brought in a temporary measure, and then it disappeared. That's what I'm asked about. The reason why it's at the level it is today is because of the legislation that they brought it in in 2014. That is why it is at the level it is today.

Those opposite have a view—having voted against tax cuts for every taxpayer yesterday, this morning they have declared they are the first opposition to ever say, 'If you elect us to government, we will increase the taxes for every single taxpayer.' Every single taxpayer will pay more tax if they are elected at the election in May. So what we know now is that they have four policies. They have a nuclear power plant of $600 billion that they have to find cuts for; they have their lunch policy—we haven't forgotten about that—and then they have the further cuts that they've spoken about. But now they have something else as well, because we know that the only thing they don't want to cut is people's taxes. Not only do they not want to cut them, and not only did they vote against them; what they want to do is to actually jack them up for every single taxpayer. It's an extraordinary policy from those opposite, who just don't get it, who have not put forward a single, lasting cost-of-living plan and who have opposed every single measure that we have put forward.

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