Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My apologies, Mr Chairman. I accept your admonishment. Based on the former government’s own rhetoric, the GST must have been massively inflationary because it was a huge one-off change in the price rates. You actually argued back then that it was not inflationary; it was a one-off movement. But let us not worry about the hypocrisy of your argument backwards and forwards, because you are on that side of the chamber now. I suggest you look up your own rhetoric at the time on every single one of those taxes that you increased over the many years you were in government. Have a look at your own rhetoric.