Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sure that in the days when the Leader of the Opposition spent his time sucking up to Richard Pratt he would have been making all these points! He would have been down there at Raheen saying, 'You're doing too well, Dick; you've got to pay a bit more tax.' That's what he would have said. Can you imagine this social mountaineer? He was there, sucking up to the billionaires of Melbourne, and now he wants to proclaim himself the champion of the poor and oppressed?

It wasn't so long ago that he was going around talking about the virtues of trusts. In fact, when he was the minister for revenue and Assistant Treasurer in 2011, he used to go from one financial planning conference to another, talking about how he loved trusts, how useful they were and how important they were for small business.

Ms Butler interjecting—

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