Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Only the Liberal Party could ask Australians to have a serious policy discussion on tax, without one single policy. They have not released a policy on broadening the tax base. They talk about new policies on superannuation, new policies on company tax, but they have not released any. And they accuse us of running a scare campaign. I would like to enlighten those opposite about a few facts regarding this so-called tax policy debate that we are having at the moment.

These individuals have advocated increasing the goods and services tax or broadening its base: Mike Baird, Gladys Berejiklian, Joe Hockey, Dan Tehan, who described it as 'unfinished business', James McGrath, Treasurer Scott Morrison and Andrew Robb. Last time I looked, those individuals had one thing in common: they are all members of the Liberal Party! It is not us. It is not us out there advocating a change to the GST. I might remind those opposite: you raised this issue. You brought it back into the political discourse in Australia.

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