Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition was triggered when I was talking about reducing income taxes. Immediately, you speak about reducing taxes, and they get upset. They've never been more angry than when we reduce income taxes for working Australians, which is what the legislation that we've introduced today will do. We're giving every member a chance—for some of whom this might be the last chance they have—to vote on income tax reductions. Over and over again, those opposite voted against the changes to stage 3 tax cuts. They voted against the income tax cuts when we introduced them in the last budget. They went to an election saying they would increase taxation for 14 million Australians and managed to, at the same time, have bigger deficits—quite an achievement for the former shadow treasurer. How did they respond to that? They made him the leader.

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