Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Last night young mum Emma Robertson from the Gold Coast told A Current Affair her family is at breaking point. She said, 'The tax cuts come in but do pretty much nothing at all.' She continued, 'It's horrible. I never pictured myself being in this situation ever but here I am, just scraping by.' Prime Minister, why are Australian families paying the price for Labor's economic incompetence?

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

Order! The member for Moncrieff was heard in silence. The Prime Minister will be given the same courtesy. The Prime Minister has the call.

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

I thank the member for Moncrieff for her question. In her electorate 88,000 taxpayers will get a tax cut—88,000! The member for Moncrieff dismisses that, saying it doesn't matter, saying it won't make a difference. I hope the member for Moncrieff writes to her constituents—all 88,000 of them—and says, 'The tax cut that you just got will make no difference whatsoever to you.' I hope that the member for Moncrieff also says to those in her electorate who, as part of the 2.6 million Australians on minimum or award wages, got a wage increase as well as a tax cut: 'That's irrelevant. That doesn't matter. You don't deserve it.' We know that they voted against it and said that they'd roll it back, and before last Thursday they said they would reimpose the tax cuts that were going to benefit the member for Moncrieff, me and everyone else in this chamber, at the expense of hard-working people—cleaners, aged-care workers and people working in supermarkets—who were going to simply miss out, get nothing whatsoever.

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

The member for Fadden!

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

I find it extraordinary that those opposite dismiss energy price relief, dismiss award wages going up, dismiss tax cuts going to every single taxpayer, dismiss cheaper child care, dismiss all those people getting the benefit of fee-free TAFE and dismiss the $300 in energy bill relief, which in Queensland is added to the $1,000 in energy bill relief from the Queensland state government. They say, 'None of that matters.' Those opposite would do absolutely nothing, because they have no positive plans for anything, just 24-hours-a-day negativity.

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

The member for Fadden was continually interjecting during that answer. He is now warned. I give the call to the honourable member for Newcastle.