Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Marxist member for Melbourne? He has a PhD in Marxist sociology, if I understand correctly. So I shall continue to call him as such. As I said it is wonderful to speak on the Marxist member for Melbourne's motion, because the coalition agrees that the billionaires and multinational corporations should pay tax. In fact, we've taken a lot of measures to make sure that multinational corporations do pay tax. But, of course, they don't want to talk about them. They want to deceive and mislead the Australian people into believing that they're the great crusaders, that they are the ones standing up for the Australian people—Don Quixote style—when in fact it is just an imaginary allegation that they are making.

At every point this government, the Morrison government, has been standing by Australians and expecting multinationals to pay their tax as part of the Australian tax landscape. Since 1 July 2016—

Mr Gosling interjecting—

I know the Australian Taxation Office data is inconvenient for the member for Solomon but it's kind of important. The actual hard data exposes the myths which are at the heart of the position put forward by the Marxist member for Melbourne. But when has truth been let get in the way of the Marxist ideology? Truth is a fungible thing.

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