House debates
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Statements by Members
Taxation
1:55 pm
Susan Templeman (Macquarie, Australian Labor Party) | Link to this | Hansard source
From 1 July, every single working Australian will get to keep more of what they've earned. That includes hardworking Middle Australia, who benefit from our tax cuts—people who were getting not much or nothing from the coalition's tax plan. A childcare worker in Bligh Park on $40,000 a year will get a $654 tax cut. Under the Liberal Party, they would have got zero. A maintenance worker at a Blue Mountains primary school on $50,000 will get a tax cut of $929 a year. A cook in aged care at Springwood or a home-care worker will get a tax cut of $1,166. Workers on $70,000 a year, like an admin worker at one of my Hawkesbury schools, will get a tax cut of $1,429. And teachers on 80 grand a year or a registered nurse in aged care will receive a tax cut of $1,679—double what they would have got under the Liberals.
Whether you're a cleaner, engineer, carpenter, retail worker, beautician or truck driver, you will get a tax cut from Labor on 1 July. That means there'll be more money in your pay packet. While the Liberals want people to work more and earn less, the Albanese government wants people to earn more and keep more of what they earn.