Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I think the whole House knows what's happening here. They can't defend or sustain their position on the actual tax cuts, so they're asking questions about all of the atmospherics and everything that goes around it, because the whole country now knows that they argued against the tax cuts but say they are voting for them. The member for Farrer says, 'Absolutely, we're going to unwind it.' They're all at sea. The opposition leader can't sustain his position for longer than 30 seconds on national television. We all know what's going on here. We have put forward a program of bigger tax cuts for more Australians to help with the cost of living. If they don't want to engage on that then perhaps they should pack up and go home.

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