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

Indeed, I was doing more than that. I made specific reference to the calculator, where you can see that, if you're on very high incomes, you get very high subsidies. That's something the Labor Party once opposed. When we sought to make changes in the earlier days, they opposed those sorts of changes. What we have done, with our economic plan, which is overseeing the comeback of the Australian recovery, is to ensure the comeback of the Australian economy. The recovery we're seeing is putting more money back into Australians' pockets. We are enabling them to do that, whether it's to meet the very important costs of child care or the many other things that Australian families need. We trust Australians to make their own decisions with their own money, and that's why we want them to keep more of what they earn. And if that means that they need to access—

Mr Snowdon interjecting—

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