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

One of the states has put this on the table. A number of the other states have put other proposals on the table. To their credit, none of the states have ruled things in or out at this point in time. To their credit, the states are prepared to have a mature debate about our tax system. Why is everyone prepared to have a mature debate about tax except the federal opposition? All the federal opposition has is one long complaint and one long whinge. That is all the opposition has here—just one long complaint. It has nothing constructive, no proposals of its own—

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