Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Rankin and welcome him back to the parliament—the part-time shadow of a shadow Treasurer. That was a dorothy dixer, because at the last election we were proposing lower taxes for Australians and Labor were proposing $387 billion of higher taxes. Do you know who said they were 'proud and pleased' of the housing tax and the retirees' tax? It was the member for Rankin, the co-architect with the member for McMahon. And do you know what the member for McMahon told the Australian people about Labor's high-taxing agenda? He said, 'If you don't like it, don't vote for it.'

The member for Rankin has the hide to come to the dispatch box knowing that he took to the Australian people a superannuation tax, he took to the Australian people a higher tax on housing, he took to the Australian people a retirees' tax, he took to the Australian people higher taxes on their income and he took to the Australian people higher taxes on small business. A leopard doesn't change their spots. The Australian people know what the member for Rankin is all about—higher taxes on all Australians.

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