Senate debates Questions without Notice

Gas Industry: Taxation


Katy Gallagher

Katy Gallagher ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service

2:36 pm

I don't accept the last proposition that Senator Allman-Payne put in her question. Also, I know it's convenient for the Greens to link taxes on resources with a whole range of other commitments they want to make in a whole range of other areas—including, seemingly, a commitment to end public funding of the private health insurance rebate, until a piece of legislation came here that Senator Allman-Payne decided they didn't support anymore. Our position—we will deal with those issues separately; we don't conflate the two. And, as I said in my last answer, we have increased significantly, over and above indexation, a range of payments for those on income support.

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