David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer ) Share this | Hansard source

In the electorate of Fremantle, for example, our tax reforms will mean that on 1 July we will be delivering a tax cut of $300 or more to 42,000 workers in her electorate. Next year, 8,000 families will see another increase in family payments of up to $600 a year, and around 6,750 hardworking families in her electorate have already started receiving the schoolkids bonus to help meet the education costs of their children, no thanks to the coalition. We know that the coalition say that they do not trust Australian families when it comes to spending their money. In the debate on this matter I saw one member opposite who said that they do not think the money will get spent on education costs; they said that they think this money will be spent on whitegoods, TVs or worse and—hopefully in none, or hardly any, cases—drugs and alcohol and other excesses and vices and things like that.

An honourable member: Who said that?

That was the member for Cowan. That is what the member for Cowan thinks about the hardworking families in his electorate. Well, if the member for Cowan does not trust them, they should not trust him. (Time expired)

Mr Simpkins interjecting—

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