House debates Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 3) Bill 2026, Income Tax Rates Amendment (Minimum Tax on Discretionary Trusts) Bill 2026, Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 4) Bill 2026; Second Reading

Wednesday, 28 October 2026 House of Representatives

Aaron Violi

Aaron Violi Casey, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy

6:50 pm

No, it's just a regular-sized coffee, but there's a trick to this coffee that this small-business owner offered me for $25. When you actually get it, there's 47 per cent missing. That 47 per cent is missing because the Prime Minister has already taken it. I ordered the Albanese coffee. It's a long-black coffee—very bitter, with no style at all and 47 per cent missing. Then, when you actually get it, it's a tea. It's an Earl Grey tea. It doesn't even deliver on what it promised. I'll tell you what, I couldn't have thought of a better description from this small-business owner because the Australian people have worked out this prime minister.

This is a prime minister that will say one thing and then do the complete opposite—whether it's promising to reduce your power bills by $275 and not delivering on it, promising to not change the capital gains tax and changing it or promising not to change trusts and changing it. This is a prime minister that has so much disrespect and contempt for the Australian people he will deny what we can see with our own eyes. He will fall off a stage, with video evidence of it, and say it didn't happen. He will disrespect the Prime Minister of Japan and will say it didn't happen. He will mislead this parliament when it comes to the Marrickville Golf Club, and he will say, 'I'm sorry,' after three tortured questions and pretend it didn't happen.

That is the reality for the Australian people. What you say matters, what you do matters and it ends up in tax changes that you didn't think were coming. The reality for the Australian people is that, in 18 months time, when the next election is here, it will be irrelevant what this prime minister and this government says. It does not matter what they say or what they promise will happen, because you cannot trust a word that they say. This is a prime minister that said, 'My word is my bond,' and has continued to mislead the Australian people, break his promises and show Australians—good luck. You have no idea what you're going to get with this prime minister at all.

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