Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Honestly, it is so difficult to keep track of Senator Pauline Hanson's latest position on the LNP's $80 billion of big-business tax cuts. She's the Vicky Pollard of the Senate: 'Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, but yeah.' In just the last few weeks, Senator Hanson has said no, then yes, then no, then maybe, and now I think we're back on no again. You would think it would be much easier to come to a firm decision when you've only got a caucus of two! The truth is that Senator Hanson continues to look after herself and votes with the LNP on every chance she gets. In fact, this calendar year, she has voted with the LNP 100 per cent of the time. In fact, all she has done this year is look after millionaires and big business. She has teamed up with the LNP to give herself a $7,000-a-year tax cut and provided a tax cut of just 10 bucks a week to ordinary workers. She pretends to support Queensland workers, but, instead, supports cuts to the penalty rates of Queensland workers, and new cuts, again, from 1 July this year. She may as well just apply for re-admission to the LNP.