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

Out of respect for the member for Fowler and her question, it is important to recognise that, as a result of that decrease in that first rate from 19c to 16c, a whole lot of her electorate who were going to get not a single dollar will now get a tax cut. As a direct result as well of our tax cut plan passing the Senate, average workers, like teachers, nurses, community workers, people in aged care, people in child care and police officers, will all get double the tax cut that they were going to get previously. As a direct result of the government's intervention as well, aged-care workers, many of whom live in the member for Fowler's electorate, will have received a 15 per cent wage increase. What that has done is feed into, as we have seen throughout 2023, delivering a real wage increase.

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