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

I thank the member for Dunkley for her question and once again congratulate her on the fine honour of following the late, great Peta Murphy into this chamber, and I wish her all the best. She knows, because the member for Dunkley has been talking to her constituents about the cost of living. In amongst a by-election campaign with trucks, with scare campaigns and with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on advertising promoting fear, the member for Dunkley went out there and talked to people about the issues that really matter to them. She spoke to them about the cost of living and about how every taxpayer in Dunkley, and indeed every taxpayer right across Australia, will get a tax cut on 1 July. And, of course, with our tax cuts—

An opposition member: We're still waiting for it.

Those opposite wonder why—when the legislation was carried after they said they'd oppose it, then that they'd fight it and then that they'd roll it back, and then they voted for it—it hasn't happened yet. Well, it'll be in the May budget, and it will be in people's pockets every single week from 1 July, for all 13.6 million of them.

Opposition members interjecting—

They continue to disparage it across the chamber. To help those at home who can't hear the remarks going across the chamber: the average working woman in Dunkley will receive a $2,000-a-year tax cut, something disparaged and dismissed by those opposite—

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