Allegra Spender (Wentworth, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

As of this morning, 5,841 Australians have taken the time to send an email to their own MPs through the Tax Reform Now campaign, asking for responsible tax reform. They've written to every single MP in this House. In the top 20 electorates receiving emails, 16 are Labor, three are Independents and one is Nationals held. But this is more than a set of numbers. This is Australians in their own time sitting down and writing to their local representatives, asking them to take this conversation into their party rooms, into caucus, into this House and into the media. They're asking for something tangible. They're asking for a tax system that works again, where the hard work you put in pays off. Regardless of generation, Australians across the country are asking for a future where younger working Australians have a real chance to get ahead off their own backs.

This campaign has not asked constituents to agree on every detail. It is about Australians saying that we need to act, that we need to rebalance the tax system instead of tinkering around the edges, and we need to give the next generation back something that feels increasingly out of reach—that is, hope

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