Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

The thrust of your question is: why are we spending money on a range of programs from the revenue we project to raise from the mining resource rent tax? Well, why did you sign up to the superannuation guarantee increase? Why did the Liberal-National Party sign up to the superannuation guarantee increase, which is paid for by revenue from the mining resource rent tax? Why did you sign up to this measure yourselves if you do not believe the forward estimates in the long term from the mining tax revenue?