Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

What the people in my electorate want to know is: how are you going to encourage and equip parents to deal with the problems of binge drinking in their own homes? You want to pretend that the government can solve this problem with taxes. The government have to work with communities, with families, with sporting organisations—with people right across this country—and your answer is to bring in a tax. Your answer with the tax was to see virtually all the money raised in that tax sit in consolidated revenue to pay for the debt binge of this government. That is what the government are committed to—debt. They are on a debt binge that we are unlikely to ever see the end of. We need to see measures come into this House which actually address the problems the government are pretending they will address. This tax is not a silver bullet. The money, if it is rejected, will get to places where it should get to and in much greater quantities than the government’s bill was ever going to deliver.

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