Anne Webster (Mallee, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. Will the government make any changes this term to the tax treatment of farming families?

Daniel Mulino (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. What I would say is that, when it comes to the tax system, the shadow Treasurer made some interesting comments in the lead-up to the roundtable. He said: 'Well, let's be fair dinkum here. We shouldn't be taking anything off the table.' So, when it comes to their spokesperson on tax, he said that we shouldn't take anything off the table, and he said, 'There's no doubt that the entire tax system needs to be reviewed.'

We are here for a serious discussion about the future of this country when it comes to productivity, when it comes to resilience and when it comes to budget sustainability. What I can stress again is that we took a range of tax policies to the last election. Implementing those tax policies is our priority. That remains our priority, and that is something which those opposite should have a think about when it comes to their own policies, which were rejected roundly at the last election. It'd be interesting to hear what their policy is.