Tony Zappia (Makin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak in support of the Tax Laws Amendment (Luxury Car Tax—Minor Amendments) Bill 2008. Before I get on to the substance of the bill, can I respond to some of the assertions and comments made by the member for Mayo. He started off by talking about what the Rudd Labor government inherited when we came to office. Let me remind him just what we inherited. We inherited a Murray-Darling Basin in absolute crisis after 12 years of a coalition government that did absolutely nothing about securing Australia’s water supplies. I can talk about that in detail on another occasion because there are plenty of examples that I can use where the previous coalition government—

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