Tom Venning (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

There's not much trust in this budget at all. It will smash small-business owners. You do not fix bad policy with tweaks; you fix bad policy with an axe. We will axe the tax.

Labor mistruths, Labor porkies, Labor broken promises or Labor incompetence—call it what you like. The Australian people have lost trust in this Labor government. The people I speak with are hoping that these taxes, these rising costs and these attacks on small businesses are merely incompetence, because, if it's not incompetence, it truly is evil. In a video circulating online, the Prime Minister said to a young couple:

Don't let the little details worry you, freak you out.

Well, Prime Minister, consider Australians pretty freaked out. The goalposts keep changing. The economy is a bin fire. Stop the war on aspiration. Axe the taxes, and stop the lies.

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