Tony Sheldon (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last night we saw the Treasurer deliver one of the most ambitious budgets in recent history, one focused on cost-of-living relief and giving the next generation a fair go. We are rolling out more tax cuts, making free urgent care clinics a permanent part of Medicare, and building more homes. Our reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax will help 75,000 homeowners get into the market over the next decade. You'd think that giving our kids a future is something everyone would get behind, but no. Instead, we saw members of the Liberals and Nationals, along with their friends in One Nation, opposing this budget before the details were even announced. In fact, this uniparty of the right has always voted against cost-of-living relief—in December 2022 on energy price relief, in December 2023 on closing loopholes— (Time expired)