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

Labor's toxic taxes don't need a tweak, a carve-out or another Canberra fix; they need the axe. You don't fix a bad tax by making it more complicated; you scrap it. Let me tell you about Vince, a 19-year-old from my electorate of Mallee who grew up in foster care in a family with no real ambition. He refused to let that define him. He got his first job at 14. Now he studies, works and invests what little he has left each week because he is trying to get ahead, and Labor wants to take nearly half of that away. Vince puts it plainly. 'What is the point of investing?' he said to me. 'Why take on all the risk and only get half the reward?' He has done the numbers. This policy could cost him nearly $40,000, and he says it leaves him feeling hopeless and frustrated—'hopeless', from a young man who did everything right. This is not fairness. This is crushing aspiration at its source. So I say to this government: listen to Vince. Listen to the young Australians asking, 'Why bother?' Scrap this tax, stop punishing effort and restore hope.