Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The point that I'm making is that I believe that everyone in this parliament understands, as indeed I believe every Australian understands, that people are doing it tough right now. The choice that we have, as the people's representatives here in the House, is whether we want to work hard to try and help people who are doing it tough or whether we want to further harm people doing it tough. If you attacked Medicare, as they did last time they were in office, if they cut wages like the Leader of the Opposition is proposing today—

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