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

I thank the member for Greenway for her question, as she is a tremendous advocate of the people of Western Sydney and, like all members of the Gillard government, she understands the modern pressures that families are facing across this country. That is why we have put in place a number of targeted policies to assist families and to ease those cost-of-living pressures. We have put in place a schoolkids bonus, we have increased assistance to families, we have provided tax cuts, tripling the tax-free threshold, and we are increasing superannuation.

While this government is out there putting in place policies that will assist families, those opposite have already flagged their intention to take a meataxe to these assistance measures. They have announced two policies so far and both of them are an attack on working families. In the first one they want to rip away the schoolkids bonus. In the second one they want to jack up taxes on the superannuation of the lowest paid Australian workers. But, of course, lots of pamphlets and two policies does not make a plan. It does not make a plan, and there is increasing pressure on them to reveal full details of what they want to take to the election.

Indeed, it is no surprise that they do not want to tell the Australian people what it is they intend to do. We saw today with the release—or should I say the embarrassing leak—of their policy on Northern Australia exactly why they want to keep their policies a secret.

Mr Morrison interjecting—

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