House debates Questions without Notice

Taxation

Thursday, 14 May 2026 House of Representatives

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:02 pm

I thank the member for his question about tax policy. The truth is that, if the coalition had won the last election and the Leader of the Opposition had been the one delivering the budget on Tuesday night, we know that it would have contained a tax increase for every single Australian taxpayer—all 14 million of them. What I can say is that we are the party that went to an election with lower taxes—lower taxes for all 14 million Australians. On top of that, of course, they went to an election saying that they'd have higher taxes on the resources and manufacturing sectors by getting rid of production tax credits. They said there'd be higher taxes on motorists by abolishing the EV concession. They said there'd be higher student debts for more than three million Australians, because they opposed the 20 per cent cut that we put in place, and higher power bills, because they said they'd abolish the home batteries program. They said there'd be more expensive training courses because they'd abolish free TAFE, because they believe, if it wasn't free, it wasn't worth having.

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