Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Comparing it to China's one-child policy! I can say that, in the Shortland electorate, the change to the baby bonus has been well received. Everybody knows that the costs you incur for the second and subsequent children are nothing near the level that you incur with the first child. It is just not good enough. People know that what the shadow Treasurer is saying is totally fallacious.

He talks about capping the growth in private health insurance rebates. That is part of a plan. Company tax payment changes are part of a plan. Changes in the defence area, higher education, looking at lost superannuation, self-managed funds levy reform, visa application charge increases—all part of a plan. But what plan does the shadow Treasurer have for Australia? I would say he has a plan that is very similar to the government in New South Wales: ripping money out of education, ripping money out of hospitals, attacking those people who look to government for support.

The shadow Treasurer and the opposition have no real plan. Their only real plan is to talk down the economy, to say no, to be negative and under no circumstances at all to put forward a real plan that will actually mean they have to tell the Australian people the truth and deliver— (Time expired)

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