Sean Bell (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) | Link to this | Hansard source

Australians are watching in horror as Labor's disgusting giant tax grab of a budget, which punishes aspiration, breaks promises and makes Australia poorer, is being rammed through parliament off the back of a shadowy deal with the Greens. This is despite the Prime Minister telling us 50 times he would not raise taxes by making changes to capital gains tax or negative gearing. This is despite the Prime Minister saying 385 times, 'I don't negotiate with the Greens.' Yet here we are with another broken promise and another dirty deal done with the Greens. Labor went to the last election telling Australians one thing, and again it is doing another. Is it any wonder that the Fire the Liar campaign has resonated so successfully with Australians? The Prime Minister has broken promises, and, in doing so, he has given the Australian people a new political punchline: 'I have merely changed my position.'

Labor's budget is rushed. It has been botched, and it is politically desperate. It is a great big tax grab from a government that has lost control of a cost-of-living crisis, lost control of a housing crisis and lost the trust of the Australian people. It's got to the point now that, whenever Labor brings a proposal to this parliament, you know it is going to cost the Australian people more—more regulation, more tax, more pain, more suffering—because Labor has a spending addiction. They keep coming back for another fix, treating hardworking nurses, teachers, police, cleaners, bus drivers and tradies—the people of Australia—like an ATM that they can fund their addiction with. Labor think they can mislead people, rely on their buddies the Greens to run cover for them, pass this big tax grab and get away with it, but they cannot. One Nation supports Australians keeping more of the money that they earn to be spent on the things that they want.

Jessica Collins (NSW, Liberal Party) | Link to this | Hansard source

I am glad there is an audience in this chamber today, because they need to know that they were absolutely betrayed on budget night—absolutely betrayed. You had your prime minister tell the good Australian people that these tax changes would not be on the table. More than 50 times he promised the Australian people that he would not make changes to the capital gains tax or negative gearing. And what did he do? He said he changed his position. Well, I'll tell you what. He didn't just change his position; he moved the goalposts on every single person in Australia, and he has lost the trust of the Australian people. What did we see here in the chamber yesterday? Labor doing a dirty deal with the Greens. And what does that mean for the rest of Australia? More taxes coming out of your hard-earned money. It's a crying shame, and we will fight this to the very end.

We want to know why Labor and the Greens think that if you want more of something—if you want more of housing, if you want more of investment or if you want to grow this economy so that we can raise our living standards—you should tax it more. Tell us that, Labor. Why tax it more?

The Greens stood in this chamber yesterday and said that the budget didn't go far enough and was not ambitious enough. Do you know what that says to the Australian people? They want to tax you more and take more of your hard-earned money. Well, we will not stand for it and we will take that all the way to the election.

This is a government that wants a share in your business and in your ambition, and it wants to tax your dreams. This is an armchair shareholder, and this is the way of the Labor government: when it runs out of money, it comes after yours.