Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

The member for Sydney speaks a lot about equality. She speaks a lot about fairness, and fairness is an absolutely critical element in any tax policy. We are considering carefully every aspect of tax because we do not want to make the same type of ill-considered mistakes the Labor Party has made in opposition and, of course, previously made in government.

We all remember the mining tax which, forecast to raise billions, raised millions. We all remember the catastrophic projects that they undertook—

A government member: Pink batts!

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