Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I did refer to Labor's tax policies that we took to the last election and that we will implement in government, and that is directly relevant to the question Senator Paterson has asked. I can understand they are still a bit sore about losing the electorate of Deakin. Can I list all the other electrics they lost as well? There were a number of them. Critical to the loss that they are clearly still mourning over on the other side of the chamber is the policy on tax that they took to the election, which was to increase tax for 14 million Australians. People understood the choice and they made that choice, and they elected Labor members—particularly, in relation to this question, into the electorate of Deakin.

Our tax policy was clear. Our policy on high-balance super accounts has been clear. We took it to the election, we said we would, we've had the election and that remains our policy.