Senate debates
Monday, 22 June 2026
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:09 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) | Hansard source
I thank Senator Grogan for that question. The Albanese government has been focusing on the cost of living since we came to government, whether it be in energy bill relief, whether it be in Medicare urgent care clinics, whether it be in cheaper medicines, whether it be in our investments in bulk-billing—all of those. And, of course, the tax cuts—those opposite hate hearing about tax cuts because they remember that they went to the last election promising to hike everyone's tax. That was a stroke of genius from those over there who went and thought about it and thought: 'You know what? We're going to go and fight an election by taking tax rises to the people and seeing what they say.' They oppose the tax cuts that we are making and that we are providing on 1 July this year. Working Australians will get a further tax cut. There's the instant deduction and there's the working Australians tax offset to come into place as well.
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