Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Hansard source

Today, during question time and again now, we have heard the government, through the member for Mitchell, say very little about the importance of tax reform. But they have tried to defend their position on proposing the increase in GST by arguing that, because the Labor Party modelled the then opposition's position on the GST, somehow or another that was our position. That is clearly not the case. We never proposed an increase in the GST. It is very clearly not the case.

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