Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor government wanted to save money, so who did they attack? They attacked the country people yet again. With respect to Minister Conroy and Senator Sterle behind him, things are pretty good in Perth and Melbourne, but they are not quite so hot in the country areas. You knock off Regional Partnerships and you put this luxury tax not on the Lamborghini drivers, who are all mates of the Labor Party in the capital cities these days, but on country people yet again. How fair is that? I do not want to name them here, but we know a lot of millionaires who support the Labor Party, people who supply planes to Labor Party operatives to jet around the world. We could talk about a couple of Labor Party politicians who are the sorts of people who should be paying luxury taxes not just for cars but for their Rolex watches, jewellery and those sorts of things as well.