Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

On 26 July 2021 the now Prime Minister said:

An Albanese Labor Government will deliver the same legislated tax relief to more than 9 million Australians as the Morrison Government.

On 29 May 2022 he said:

We said on the stage 3 tax cuts, that they had been legislated … people are entitled to operate on the basis of that certainty.

On 23 June 2022 he said, about the stage 3 tax cuts:

… they are legislated, and one of the things that people have a right to believe, is that when a politician makes a commitment before an election, they keep it and I intend to do just that.

On 18 August 2023 the Prime Minister said:

We have not changed our position on the stage three tax cuts. I've been very clear about that.

On 23 January 2024 the Prime Minister said, about the stage 3 tax cuts, 'My word is my bond,' and, 'We said during the election campaign that we would maintain the position that had already been legislated.' In fact, on over 100 occasions the Prime Minister and his colleagues committed to keep the stage 3 tax cuts, and then less than two weeks ago we saw one of the most breathtakingly cynical acts in Australian political history—the promise was simply dumped. The Australian people now know you cannot trust a word this man says.

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