Simon Kennedy (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Andrew, what you've heard today from Labor—and I'll finish reading your letter in a minute—is that they're not listening. They just said, 'You're going to love these changes.' That is how tone deaf this Labor government is. But, Andrew, do not worry, because I'm going to fight for our community; I'm going to fight for people in their young 20s. And when they say, 'You're going to love it,' I'm not going to be interrupted, and I will finish reading your letter right now. Andrew went on to say:

The hard part is the Labor government without asking it's citizens has decided to change the Capital Gains Tax discount which means the investments we've worked so hard to build and risked so much money on will now only give us half the profit we would have and is now dragging us further away from having to call a home our own.

Please please please help with rectifying this and at the very least force a vote as to whether the capital gains discount should be changed because it's not fair for hard working people trying to get ahead. My wife's a nurse and I'm a teacher, we should be able to have a roof over our head and not worry about money.

That is what Labor's tax changes are doing. Andrew is a teacher and his wife is a nurse. He's written to me out of desperation. He said 'please, please, please' three times, and the message I heard from a Labor member in here today is, 'Andrew, you're going to love these changes.' That is how much this government listens to you. They don't listen to what I say even when I come to parliament and read out your letters. Instead of reflecting or asking a question—

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