Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It pays to pay attention to what happens in question time. I thank the member for Hume for his question. I say to the member for Hume that, at half past two, you shouldn't necessarily ask the question that was decided upon whenever tactics met this morning, because we just had in this chamber an answer about taxation. We on this side of the House have legislation before the parliament right now to lower taxation. Imagine the discussion of those opposite in the party room yesterday. Some of them would have followed the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and said, 'It's not really relevant, because these electric vehicles don't exist. Electric utes don't exist.' But others would've said, 'No, we have to hold the line here. We have to try. We've blown out $1 trillion of debt. Why would we worry about these issues? Remember, if we vote for a tax reduction'—

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