Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

to hold one idea in their head at a time and can look at the broader array of taxes and reforms that can leave them better off. That is what this government is doing. We are pursuing tax changes in the spirit of those announced and commended by the Labor Premier of South Australia, who does believe that we need to respect people's intelligence, that we do need to explain these complex issues, as we are doing. Those opposite just jump in the bed, pull the doona over their head and hope it will all go away.

Scenario 3—if they want to talk about taxes, the Leader of the Opposition and, particularly, the shadow Treasurer, know all about scenario 3, which is the option he modelled to expand the GST base and increase the GST rate. But I notice there are a lot of other plans. Maybe it is the plan B that the member for Grayndler is working on. Maybe he has a plan B. Maybe the member for Sydney has a plan B. We know the Leader of the Opposition is sticking with plan A.

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