Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) | Hansard source

I hear those opposite chirping away. They have not changed a bit since they said low wages were a deliberate design feature of their economic policy. They have not learned a thing since the last time the member for Hume told them to vote against tax cuts in this place. They don't support pay rises. They don't support tax cuts. They don't support first home buyers, and neither does the other part of the three-ring circus over there, the One Nation party. They always vote the way that Gina Rinehart tells them to and not the way that working Australians need them to in this parliament.

When the country is crying out for change, those opposite cling to a broken status quo which has been locking too many Australians out of housing for too long. When they see the legitimate concerns and pressures that people have around this country, they seek to benefit from that politically. We seek to address those legitimate concerns that people have, and that's what the budget is all about. When they look around the world at the social dislocation and political division in other countries, they want to replicate it here. We want to avoid it. Their strategy is to talk down the economy, to talk up division in our society and to vote against tax cuts and first home buyers. We'll learn more about our economy tomorrow in the national accounts, but we already know that this side supports workers and first home buyers, and that side does not.

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