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

I thank the member for Melbourne for his question. I inform him that 101,000 of his constituents got a tax cut this week—101,000 of them.

I'm asked about the political party that I belong to, and which I have been loyal to for my whole life, and about people making a decision to distance themselves from their former party. The cross-section there is full of people who used to be members of the National Party or members of the Liberal Party. Senator Thorpe, of course, was elected earlier, in the last election, as a member of the Greens political party and chose to depart from that. From time to time, that happens. And that has happened in terms of the senator making a decision that she wished to be able to take an independent position when it comes to the Middle East.

I'm asked about, also—

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