George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

There you go again, Senator Gallagher. Every single proposition you asserted in your question was wrong; every single one. So let us go through them, Senator Gallagher. First of all, you assert the government proposed to increase the GST. The government has never proposed to increase the GST. The Labor Premier of South Australia, Mr Weatherill, recommended an increase in the GST. So did Mr Mike Baird, by the way. The government has never proposed an increase in the GST. You assert that the government proposed double taxation. Wrong again, Senator Gallagher. That has never been proposed by this government. And now you say, based on unsourced newspaper gossip, that we are proposing four different caps when only one set of proposals has ever been announced—and that, Senator Gallagher, is the government's policy.