Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Don't you worry about all these little boiling frogs that are starting to jump on the back bench. You will be getting a lot hotter—trust me!

The one thing that [people] will never have to suffer under a Coalition government is an unnecessary new tax, a tax that could easily be replaced by savings found from the budget."

That is Tony Abbott in 2011. People who work hard should not be 'hit with higher taxes'. He said that in 2012. This next one is a pearler. The member for Corio and I had to sit through this one in the last term of parliament. Do you remember it? This is in the 'Best of Tony Abbott' DVD:

… there can be no tax collection without an election. If this government had any honesty, any decency, that is what we would have: an election now.

Remember that one. 2011 was a very productive year for the Prime Minister. He was churning out these quotes left, right and centre. I will give you another one:

No country ever got rich by increasing taxation. No country ever built a strong economy by clobbering itself with tax after tax after tax.

The GP tax, the hospital tax—look at all the things that you have done. And there is your other tax on top of that.

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