Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday in question time, the Prime Minister said it's time to be honest. Let's see in this question time if we're going to get any of that honesty. Is he going to admit that the budget two weeks in is unravelling before his eyes? Is he going to admit that the Treasurer is getting advice now from every Tom, Dick, Harry and Andrew? Is the Prime Minister going to be honest about who he is going to carve out of his small-business tax hit? Is he going to carve out the plumbers, the carpenters, the hairdressers and the farmers, or is he just going to do it to a small select group that he wants to appeal to?

Come on, Prime Minister, you said yesterday it's time to be honest. We know your budget was a budget of broken promises and of large, large tax increases. What we want to know today is: who is going to be hit? It's two weeks into your budget. Who are you carving out? What will be the revenue impacts of carving that out? Will you be upfront and say this budget is collapsing before your eyes, or is it true what people are saying—that you can't lie straight on a yoga mat?

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