Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Carol Brown for her question. I know she has an interest in the Medicare levy surcharge more broadly. Yesterday the opposition demonstrated that they were not going to stand up for working families and that they were going to send a clear message to all those hardworking Australians that the opposition did not agree that they should have tax break. The Rudd government proposed a new Medicare levy surcharge threshold of $75,000 for singles while retaining our original proposal for couples of $150,000 to deliver immediate tax relief in the order of 330,000 Australians. The tax cut that those opposite opposed is worth up to $1,500 for each and every family. Today I am asking senators on the other side, those Liberals—