Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The matter of public importance before the chamber about the government hitting the household budgets of Middle Australia is a great opportunity to explore what is at the heart of the coalition government, because we have seen, with their last two demonstrations of what they think about the Australian people—budget 2014 and budget 2015—that they are hollow at their core If we look at the curve of Australian history, a movement from colonies to Federation to cooperative federalism, we suddenly see that progression of history stop on 8 September 2013, and we move from cooperative federalism to this uncooperative Tonyism, where suddenly we see the middle class attacked, we see the poorest of Australia attacked and we see the tradition of looking after our pensioners attacked. We saw for a year—

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