Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. On Friday the Treasurer said, in relation to the government's changes to tax, 'Those issues were not under consideration before September last year.' But the former Prime Minister's spokesperson said, 'It is simply not true that the government only started looking at tax issues last September.' Prime Minister, who is right?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If the honourable member wants to ask the Treasurer a question, she is free to do so. I am not going to provide a commentary on a purported quote of the Treasurer's commenting on one of my predecessors. She is fully entitled to ask the Treasurer a question of that kind, but my job is to answer questions about what my government is doing, not to engage in historical discussions with the member for Sydney.