House debates Questions without Notice

Fringe Benefits Tax

Thursday, 4 July 2024 House of Representatives

David Gillespie

David Gillespie Lyne, National Party

2:41 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister guarantee that a government he leads will not make any changes to the tax treatment of the tradie work ute—

Unidentified interjection - Hansard doesn't record who said this

Government Members:

Government members interjecting—

David Gillespie

David Gillespie Lyne, National Party

Sorry—any changes to the fringe benefits tax treatment of the work ute.

Milton Dick

Milton Dick Speaker

Order, members on my right! To assist the House, because I think the member may have missed a part of the question, I'm going to ask the member to do the question again. I couldn't hear what he was saying.

Government members interjecting—

Order! Everyone's entitled to a fair go when people are asking their questions. That's to everyone in the chamber. The member for Lyne is entitled to ask a question, and he's going to ask his question.

David Gillespie

David Gillespie Lyne, National Party

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister guarantee millions of Australian tradies that a government he leads will not make any changes to the fringe benefits tax treatment of the tradies' work ute, the utility vehicle?

Government members interjecting—

Milton Dick

Milton Dick Speaker

Order! The laughing can cease immediately.

The member for Groom is not helping. When the House comes to order, the member for Lyne has asked his question.

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:43 pm

He had three cracks, and I'm still not sure what the question was. Let me just say this. The member should ask about what we are doing, not what we aren't doing. What we are doing is bringing forward legislation, before this parliament, across a range of measures—most importantly, the legislation that gave every one of the taxpayers in line a tax cut on Monday. It's legislation where the member for Lyne was part of an operation that said they would oppose it, before they knew what it was, and then said they'd roll it back and then said we should have an election over it.