Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. In your government's brutal budget, you have made cuts to health, welfare and education, you have saddled students with decades of debt, you have slashed funding to the states and you have left vulnerable people out in the cold—all in the name of a contrived budget emergency. At the same time, Australia's tax concessions are the most generous in the world, amounting to $115 billion last year. Why did the government rule out winding back generous tax concessions to the big end of town and instead target pensioners, people with disabilities, students and the sick?