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

Our ambition for young Australians, and particularly those working in regional areas, is that they earn a bit more than $18,200, that they are able to work throughout the entire year. If an Australian were to work throughout the entire year alongside a foreign backpacker working in Australia, in comparison the Australian would be paying on average $132.65 per week in tax but the foreign worker standing next to them would be paying $99.75 a week. I asked in the House yesterday what union those opposite were members of. Maybe they are members of the foreign workers union, because they are the interests that they are seeking to represent in this place. Those opposite think it is a better idea for small businesses to pay higher rates of tax in this country by refusing to support the government's proposal to extend the threshold for small business up to $10 million a year, where they will pay 27.5c in the dollar in tax, where they will get access to the instant asset write-off and where they will get access to the depreciation pooling provisions.

Mr Hill interjecting—

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