Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister has said, we are implementing the tax policy we took to the last election—that is, the tax policy that is about making the tax system more efficient and fairer. But I'll take part of what Senator McGrath said. He used the phrase 'significant concern', and what that is actually code for is 'our scare campaign'. At some point, the Australian people will look to the coalition and say, 'When do you get beyond scare campaigns and when will you actually start to put forward policies that are about our lives, about our aspirations and about what we need for our families?' When are you going to do that? So far, all we have continued to see, pre-election and after the election, is a series of scare campaigns from those opposite, who still fail to have an agenda that relates to the Australian people.