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

I'd just like to take this opportunity to let some of the members across the aisle understand the human face of some of the people this budget is hurting. Recently I heard from Andrew. Andrew is a young family man in my seat of Cook. This is what he wrote:

My name's Andrew and I'm writing to you for help …

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My wife's a nurse and I'm a teacher …

He says:

Life has been hard for someone in his late 20s to try and build a future for my family, as with many other Australians.

Inflation has made it difficult to keep up saving for a house, and my wife and I have been saving, investing, working hard to try and buy a home to call out own.

The hard part in the Labor government, without asking its 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 a home to call our own.

Please, please, please rectify this …

He is begging.

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