Ben Small (Forrest, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Electoral Matters) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take the finger-waggling from the member for Hasluck about this MPI, which is about the rushed and damaging taxes on all Australians—those Australians who save more and will pay more tax, those Australians who invest and will pay more tax and those young Australians who take risks and will pay more tax under this budget of betrayal. Indeed, the member for Hasluck is right. It says a lot about the opposition that we will fight these taxes. We will fight these taxes until the very end.

The Prime Minister of Australia has become very fond of quoting people in this place. So I thought I'd enlighten the House with a couple of quotes from my own electorate. One constituent says:

the recent budget is appalling and has raised so many questions

This particular constituent goes on and says:

they are going too far and continue to—

I've got to stop there, Deputy Speaker, because this constituent has used a three-letter word starting with L, ending with E, and I won't break the standing orders.

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