Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

It was not the Dalai Lama. This was said in the parliament—that this was not ‘fleeting rhetoric’, that this was ‘a day of fundamental injustice’. Who said those words? None other than the Leader of the Opposition, the economic conservative. The ‘day of fundamental injustice’ was when we swept away wholesale sales tax, financial institutions duty, bank account debits tax, stamp duties on share transactions, when we cut income tax rates, when we increased thresholds—that was ‘a day of fundamental injustice’. Now he says it is a myth to claim that Labor has no tax policy because the tax policy is the Beazley tax policy of 2005. When you are getting ready, seriously, to engage in a policy discussion, the Australian people are entitled to look at it and know what it means, but this is not an opposition that is anywhere near that point.

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