Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for pulling up the member for Bradfield. We are making sure that we do not forget social justice. Australia as a nation is in a process of change, but we can never forget people in that process of change. We have increased the pension. We have engaged in income tax cuts. Fortuitously, I have to hand some of the statistics on the personal income tax cuts that this government has delivered.

Someone earning $20,000 is paying $750 less this financial year than they were in 2007-08. Someone earning $30,000 is paying $750 less than they would have been in the last year of the Howard government. Someone earning $50,000 is paying $1,750 less this financial year than they would have been in the last year the Howard government.

Mr Briggs interjecting—

Mr Fletcher interjecting—

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