Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. During the government's three-day talkfest, a new housing tax, a new death tax, a new wealth tax, a new tradie tax and new levies on Australian businesses were floated. Is the Prime Minister aware of any work the Treasurer has commissioned on these proposals?

Hon. Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! There's far too much interjection. The minister for agriculture and others will make absolutely interjections when people are asking questions.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question and for a question about tax policy not from the government but by people who attended a roundtable. Maybe it was the shadow Treasurer who was raising these things. I actually heard the shadow Treasurer say that everything was up for review and that they had an open mind. I do know this: two days before the last election, the member for Hume, who is a former shadow minister, snuck out the coalition costings, and they revealed a figure $75 billion higher in personal income taxes. That's right. They, including the former Deputy Leader of the Opposition, went to the election on that. Vote for us and you get $75 billion—

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You're so used to lying, Chris.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! We're going to pause and get the member for Hume to quickly withdraw that so we can continue.

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I withdraw.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Hume.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At least it got in Hansard, Mr Speaker! They had $75 billion in personal income tax increases over there. They had higher taxes on the resources sector and on the manufacturing sector because they wanted to abolish production tax credits, which reduce taxes for the resources sector. They had higher taxes on motorists through their abolition of the EV concession that was put in place. This'll be good!

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Manager of Opposition Business on a point of order.

Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I didn't want to be there. Why would I want to go to that?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You may not be here if this continues.

Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The PM's hectoring me. He's hectoring me, not the other way around.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Get to your point of order.

Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I take a point on relevance. In no way was he asked about coalition policy. The only thing the Prime Minister has answered this question with is coalition policy. He was asked about modelling. Is he aware of any modelling that the Treasurer has done on any of the socialist policies?

Yes, I wasn't invited. You're correct, Prime Minister.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Resume your seat. It's not an open mic session, Manager of Opposition Business. People are entitled to raise points of order. It was a very broad question, and the question was about any modelled views by Treasury on these proposals. I'm going to get the Prime Minister to be directly relevant to the question. He can talk about opposition policies, but, in terms of his answer, he's got to be directly relevant to the policy he was asked about.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm being directly relevant to what I was asked about, which is policies from non-government members raised last week. I know that, after their party room, things are a bit difficult there, but we saw the Manager of Opposition Business just say that he didn't want to go to the roundtable. Well, talk to the bloke next to you because he was there. He got an invite. He was keen. He even came to drinks at the Lodge, and he was very welcome. They also had, of course, a policy that they're trying to implement tonight: higher taxes on the housing and construction industry through abolishing build-to-rent. We want to assist the building of more homes. They want to abolish those concessions.

They also, of course, went through with higher student debts for more than three million Australians—not proceeding with the 20 per cent cut; bigger mortgages for tens of thousands of Australians, because they said they'd abolish Help to Buy; higher power bills, with the abolition of the cheaper home battery scheme; and more expensive training courses, with the abolition of free TAFE. Those opposite actually went to an election arguing for higher taxes and bigger deficits. That is some achievement. (Time expired)