House debates

Monday, 21 May 2018

Questions without Notice

Taxation

2:28 pm

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

She said she's proud of it—proud of going after self-funded retirees' savings and proud of raiding the life's earnings of grandmothers and grandfathers. She's proud. She is so proud. She's proud of cutting the income of the lady in her 80s I was with in Queanbeyan recently by 28 per cent. That's what the Leader of the Opposition and his team—his proud team—want to do. They want to rip $5 billion a year out of the savings of older Australians. They want to do that so they can fund their reckless spending plans, and they want to pose now as cutting taxes. Well, Australians know the Labor Party, and they know their leader very well. They do. They know he can't be trusted. Think about this: I talked about how he's switched sides on company tax. What about the Fair Work legislation? In 2008 the Leader of the Opposition said—

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