Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Well, under them, it was a deliberate design feature to keep wages low. Under us, it is a deliberate design feature to get wages moving again, and it's working. They don't like it, but it's working.

I also want to take the opportunity, if I may, to congratulate the member for Petrie on his appointment to the position of shadow Assistant Treasurer. We waited a long time, 300 days, but I do want to take this opportunity to congratulate him and to inform him that 87 per cent of his electorate are better off under the Albanese government's arrangements. They're about $1,479 better off.

I wanted to know where the shadow Assistant Treasurer stood on the issues of income tax reduction, so I looked at his website. This is a helpful document here which I'd like to—

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