Jason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The minister for local government worked at Pedro's Mexican Restaurant and the member for Hinkler worked as a paid lifeguard when he was doing his engineering degree at university. I see him nodding. The minister for aged care served tea and coffee with her mum in an aged-care centre when she was studying at university, the minister for skills—my bench buddy over their—worked in a petrol station and on an assembly line to get himself through university and the member for Paterson pulled beers at the Brewery in Newcastle. A lot of us, all across the chamber, have stories like that. You worked in a butcher shop, didn't you?

Right now, there are millions of hardworking Australians doing these jobs full-time—cooks, waiters, bartenders, assembly-line workers, aged-care workers. Every one of them who pays tax will get a tax cut on 1 July. All Australian taxpayers will get a tax cut because we want Australians to earn more and keep more of what they earn.

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