Sarah Henderson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications and Digital Safety) | Hansard source

I withdraw. I want to quote from my speech, when I spoke on this bill last time and when I said:

I cannot even believe that any Australian now has any confidence in anything that this—

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government says.

I wasn't, in fact, pulled up when I made that comment. So let me just say the Australian people won't cop the deception. They won't cop the fact that women are being sold out by this government every single day. And we see it again in the dirty, rotten deal that was handed down last night.

The coalition will axe Labor's toxic taxes. Axing them means lower taxes: lower taxes on small business, lower taxes on housing, lower taxes on investment and lower taxes on Australians who work hard, save hard and want to get ahead. There is a better way—not betrayal, not deception, not the sleazy sneakiness that we've seen from this government. There is a better way for a fairer, freer and better Australia, and that includes our tax-back guarantee, which we've committed to—automatic tax cuts every year to address the bracket creep rort. For a typical worker on $70,000, that means $250 in year 1, $500 in year 2, then $750, going to $1,000 in year 4. We will cap migration to the number of homes Australia actually builds. We are determined to fight these toxic taxes every step of the way.

When it comes to the superannuation savings of Australian women, again I want to say how important this bill is to continue the good work of the coalition in making and improving retirement outcomes, particularly for women, and making superannuation fairer and more flexible. Women need a much bigger hand of help than men because they have, on average, lower superannuation balances. The idea that spouses have the option to split their collective superannuation balances evenly between them is a very fair and very exciting proposal for our country and for every Australian family. It sits in stark contrast to the shocking deal that was made in this place just yesterday, which will be pushed through the parliament, meaning anyone who's decided to invest in their own self-managed superannuation fund has now been sold up the river by the Albanese government.