Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

constructively, the opposition is simply asserting is the government is proposing to do something which the government is not proposing to do. We are in the business of carefully considering the numerous options and analyses—including the NATSEM modelling, which we are very familiar with—and all of these matters, and coming to a fully informed decision. So, when the honourable member stands up and says, 'You are going to put a 15 per cent GST on all households without any compensation, and this will damage or relatively damage our lower income households', she is using a completely false premise.

The government is not proposing to do that at all. The honourable member is completely addicted to the old political paradigm of 'rule in, rule out'. She feels that, under the withering cross-examination from the Labor Party, we will wilt and we will rule everything out; that we will be as feeble as the member for Lilley was when he was the Treasurer; that we will rule every issue out and that we will shut down the discussion—

Ms Owens interjecting—

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