Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Ciccone, I welcome you to this chamber and I wish you a very successful career for many years to come—hopefully for quite a bit longer on the opposition benches. What I would advise you very genuinely is, when you're handed questions by your tactics committee, perhaps try and listen to the answer to the primary question before you just read out the first supplementary that you are handed, because the premise of the question is entirely wrong. If you had listened to my answer to the primary question, you would know that the premise of the question is entirely wrong, because Australians at the lower income end are getting higher tax cuts on the percentage that—