Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Because they know that people will hate it. That is exactly right. Because, if they told people the truth before an election about their high-taxing intentions, their high taxing plans, they know that people would not support them. So this is where we are.

This is of course a tax that has been considered by the Senate before. This is a tax which has been voted down by the Senate before. This is a tax which has been put forward by the government before and has been rejected by the Senate before. The Senate should reject this tax again. Looking at the make-up of the chamber, I am not confident that the Senate will. Students across Australia will be on the receiving end of the Labor-Greens alliance which will come to play in this chamber. Students across Australia every year when they pay this tax should remember that this is a tax that has been imposed on them by Labor and Greens senators in this chamber. This is the Sarah Hanson-Young tax, because it is the Greens that are going to make sure that this bad tax will get through this chamber. I will walk up and down the campuses of Australia—