Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Collins, you should hang around because a lot of this speech is about you. This is the sense of it. We have also heard what Senator Collins talked about at the end. She changed tack halfway through. At the start she was saying that the concept of the luxury car tax and the impending Henry inquiry were disconnected, but then she changed tack towards the end and said they were connected. This is the Labor Party position which they are going to roll out into other areas of people’s lives—a tax on luxury. I find the whole term aggravating—the tax on luxury. Where the Labor Party always fail—they are always absolutely hopeless at it—is in their attention to detail. A typical one is, unfortunately, Senator Marshall saying that the luxury car tax applied to cars—and he was saying something like, ‘You’ve got to get your details right and you’ve got to know what you’re talking about’—worth more than $57,123, if I can remember it correctly, and you can check the Hansard. It is not $57,123; it is $57,180—$57,123 was the previous year.