Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Newcastle for the question. There are 78,000 taxpayers in her electorate that, as of 1 July, have benefited from Labor's tax cuts, including a substantial number of women. We have deliberately placed women and gender equality at the centre of our economic plan. This hasn't happened by accident. We know that women work incredibly hard across our economy, and we do understand that people are under pressure and that some are doing it tough. That's why we are working to ensure that women earn more and get to keep more of what they earn, and that has happened because of the policies of this government.

Yesterday we delivered a tax cut to every single taxpayer. On average, women taxpayers will receive a tax cut of around $1,650, which is $707 more than they would have received under those opposite's stage 3 tax plans. When we were looking at the stage 3 tax plans, we wanted to make sure that the people who earned under $45,000—some of the lowest income earners in the country—who were getting a big fat zero in tax cuts under those opposite's plans—

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