Daniel Mulino (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

What I'll say to those opposite is that this government held an important forum for people from right around the country to put their ideas to the government so that we can look at productivity, resilience and sustainability going forward. What we can also say is that this government is focused on delivering our election commitments. Our election commitments include sustaining tax cuts for every single Australian taxpayer, and what I can say is that those opposite went to the last election saying they would vote down those tax cuts. When it comes to tax, there is a direct contrast between those opposite and what we're putting forward. We have not changed any of our positions on tax. We have clear tax policies that we took to the last election, which included that one and which included a 20 per cent reduction in HECS, which was our very first bill that we brought to this parliament and which was the first bill that we passed through this parliament in both this chamber and the Senate. That was a critical part of our tax strategy. We will also be bringing forward another important tax policy when it comes to payday super.

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