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

I can confirm to the member for Menzies that I was watching the ABC on Monday night. And they all were too! They were all watching it! They were all watching it, one by one, because most of them were on it! Most of them were on it, in a competition of who could show the most hatred for their colleagues. It was just extraordinary: one after the other, all out there, using all sorts of colourful language about each other.

I'm asked about tax policy and what people think about tax policy as well. Well, those opposite have described it—our policy to give tax cuts to every Australian—in the following terms: 'an egregious error', 'a betrayal', 'treachery', 'trickery', 'absolutely shameful', 'class warfare', 'war on aspiration', 'lifetime tax on aspiration', 'divisive', 'regressive', 'morally bankrupt', 'handful of dollars', 'inflationary', 'a big tax grab' and 'Marxist economics'. It was going to 'obliterate opportunity', 'crush confidence' and 'undermine the strength of the economy'. They said all that before they declared they were going to vote for it. You can't be taken seriously unless you—

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