Barry Haase (Durack, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

According to the Australian Taxation Office website, to be eligible for a tax bonus payment—and the point is the relationship of this faux pas to the upcoming faux pas—you must have lodged a 2007-08 income tax return by 30 June 2009, your 2007-08 taxable income did not exceed $100,000 and you were an Australian resident for tax purposes during the 2007-08 financial year. Those are perfectly reasonable criteria. It is stated on the same website that one of the eligibility criteria for the Australian resident for tax purposes is having been in Australia for more than half of the financial year, unless your usual home is overseas and you do not intend to live in Australia. I wonder how the 27,000 people living overseas spent the money designed to boost the local Australian economy.

This government is asking us to trust them with their technology and our address. We cannot trust with them with their word. We cannot trust them with our money. To date, we have a failed border protection system, including a $1.7 billion blowout, up to $8 billion wasted in their Building the Education Revolution and $2.5 billion in their pink batts program. We have a $1.4 billion blowout in the laptops in schools program—

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