Jerome Laxale (Bennelong, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Every day we have been in government, Labor has focused on cost-of-living challenges faced by Australians, and we know there is more to do. It's been 12 months since Labor announced top-up tax cuts for 14 million Australians. It's pretty simple for us: Labor thinks that workers should earn more and keep more of what they earn. But we know that not everyone in here thinks that way, because in that same 12 months we've had to fight the Liberals and the Nationals, who oppose Labor's top-up tax cuts. Not only did they vote against Labor's tax cuts, they then said they'd increase income taxes if they won the election. And now they've got the genius behind those decisions as the leader of their coalition. I mean, talk about failing up.

Unlike the three parties over there, Labor understands that, to fix intergenerational equity, we need to give income tax payers relief. And, to do that, we need members of parliament who are focused on the real issues, not on themselves. Because Australia re-elected a Labor government, they've had just that: students have had 20 per cent slashed off their debt, PBS medicines are down to $25 per script, more and more doctors are bulk-billing and nearly 300,000 Australians have installed a home battery. Supporting Australians is what Labor governments do. Bring on those 1 July tax cuts.

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

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