Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We are reducing tax by some $5.4 billion. But it is interesting, is it not, that members opposite are obsessed by the tax burden—because they live on 'planet tax'. That is where they live; they all live on 'planet tax'. There is their carbon tax; there is their mining tax; there are all the superannuation taxes that they inflicted in government and that they want to inflict again on the retirees of Australia; and then there is the Leader of the Opposition's own special tax—the piggy bank tax. Do you remember that? Do you remember the piggy bank tax? This was about all the retirees and all the kids who did not have very active bank accounts, and the Leader of the Opposition's clammy hand went into their pockets and he trousered the money. The Leader of the Opposition's stealthy fingers reached for the hammer and he smashed open the piggy bank and he trousered the money. This man is the taxing expert of our county.

Ms Owens interjecting—

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