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

We know that this weak Labor leader also wants to splash $6 billion on people who've already had the jab. We also know that if Labor is given half a chance on the Treasury benches they will introduce higher taxes. How do we know? Because when they were last in government they gave us the mining tax and a carbon tax which doubled the electricity price. Then we know that, in opposition, they railed against our income tax cuts, which the member for Rankin called offensive, and they were against our small business tax cuts. Then, at the last election, they took to the Australian people $387 billion of higher taxes on your superannuation, on your housing, on your income, on your family businesses and on retirees. We know that this weak Leader of the Opposition will not stand up to the Greens, he will not stand up to the co-architects of $387 billion—

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