Zoe McKenzie (Flinders, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. In these uncertain economic times, can the Prime Minister guarantee the millions of Australian tradies that there will be no changes to the fringe benefits tax exemption for single and dual cab utes?

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

If you have the view that they've been advocating for week after week, that they have been doing through their proxies through their extreme right wing little groups, funded by all those people running around during the Dunkley by-election, then they won't be the utes. That's their position as they go forward. They say there will not be any utes. They say that it will all go backwards. The fact is that what we have, as the member for Bradfield has repeatedly said when he was the minister, he put forward the case for the need to have proper emission standards.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Hume on a point of order?

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Relevance, Mr Speaker. It was a very specific question about fringe benefit tax on utes.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will return to the question.

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

I'm talking about what we are doing, not what we're not doing. What we are doing is putting forward a sensible measure. We are putting forward a proposition which those opposite couldn't land over a whole decade. We are putting forward a proposition which, when we were the opposition and this minister approached this shadow minister for transport, we said yes, will provide support for this reform because it is in Australia's national interest. Because what you run appropriately on Australia's national interest is good reform, and that is what we are doing.