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

I was sitting there hoping that they'd double down on this policy, and it turns out that they have, and I couldn't be happier about that, Mr Speaker, if I'm honest with you. There are two points about the shadow Treasurer's question. First of all, only the Liberal and National parties could see taxpayers and workers funding between $1.6 billion and $10 billion to shout their bosses lunch as an issue of fairness. Only those opposite could see that as an issue of social justice and an issue of fairness. The second point I would make is this—the nerve of these characters, on a day when they've been sprung not releasing the cost of their own policy, jumping up and asking about the costing of a policy which has been longstanding.

The reason that the shadow Treasurer is losing his cool again, just like he did when the good inflation numbers came out, is that—

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