Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Prime Minister Gillard has achieved a successful vote in the House of Representatives today on a Labor reform that is about the future. I anticipate that, in years ahead, people will look back to people like Senator Joyce and they will talk about how he was on the wrong side of history again, just as those opposite were on Medicare, just as they were on superannuation and just as they were on Work Choices. They are always playing short-term politics and never looking to the future. I also remind Senator Joyce that his policy will oblige him to go to the next election arguing for lower pensions, because he is going to take the pension increase from pensioners, for higher taxes, because he is not going to be able to triple the tax-free threshold—