Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This week parliament has passed the second instalment of the closing loopholes legislation, which means a safer trucking industry, pathways to more secure employment conditions. With wages moving in the right direction, Australians will be earning more and they will be well on their way to keeping more of what they earn.

Speaking of keeping more of what you earn, 91 per cent of taxpayers in Spence are better off under Labor's bigger, better and fairer tax cuts. That means 67,000 taxpayers in Spence will experience a tax cut, on average, of $1,217. Moreover, 74,000 taxpayers in Spence will receive a tax cut from 1 July this year. If you're a truck driver in Spence, you will receive a bigger tax cut under Labor's tax cuts. If you're a nurse working in Spence, you will receive a bigger tax cut under Labor's plans. If you're working in retail, and hopefully a member of the SDA, you will be receiving a bigger, better and further tax cut under this Labor government. That is something that you can count on.

More than 13 million Australians are counting on Labor to pass these tax cuts. They know that the Albanese Labor government wants them to keep more of what they earn, and they know deep down that the Leader of the Opposition is hell-bent on seeing them work longer and get paid less.