Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What I have just said to the Leader of the Opposition is that his fear campaign has been proved, and day by day is being proved, to be a con—a con on the Australian people. He has been out there trying to scare Australian families. Remember the $100 lamb roast? Has the Leader of the Opposition been to a supermarket and scoured through the meat to find one of those? This is the Leader of the Opposition's fear campaign running out of puff.

As for the families of Australia, let me assure the Leader of the Opposition that we as a government will continue to work with Australian families to assist them with their cost-of-living pressures. We are doing that through increasing family payments and through a historic increase in the pension, which we have built on. We are doing that by making sure that you do not pay a cent of tax for the first $18,200 that you earn. We are also doing that by providing the schoolkids bonus to help families with the cost of getting the kids to school. That is something that the shadow Treasurer has announced would be ripped away from Australian families—not even replaced by the former education tax rebate, just money directly ripped out of the pockets of Australian families. That is an opposition that has forgotten the needs of families in that extreme policy.

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