Andrew Murray (WA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

The Democrats oppose schedule 2 in the following terms:

(11)  Schedule 2, item 27, page 41 (line 21) to page 43 (line 6), TO BE OPPOSED.

The Democrats oppose the proposed indexation of thresholds, which is in the bill. The Democrats are supporters of indexation in many cases, including, I might say, the indexation of the tax-free threshold, which the coalition oppose. But, since we oppose the threshold itself, it would be odd for us to support the indexation, so we therefore oppose this provision.