Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We have delivered a tax cut to Middle Australia. Those earning $87,000—that is not a fortune—were getting caught up in bracket creep, and we have fixed that issue. And, at the end of the line, we are delivering a surplus—something that that side of the parliament promised to do on no less than four occasions. They never got anywhere near it, and they still do not have a path to get there. We know what would happen if Labor came back to these benches—those surpluses would just keep disappearing into the future. This government is responsible—it is meeting its commitments to the Australian public. As well, we are helping rural Australia by pumping an extra $472 million into those areas. We are helping ordinary Australians—I think that is what this matter of public importance today is about—by pumping that extra $472 million into a Regional Growth Fund, and we are helping ordinary Australians by providing another round of funding for the Building Better Regions Fund. (Time expired)

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