Grant Chapman (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Common sense tells you that! It is about time this government applied a bit of common sense—because you clearly do not have any. As I was saying, with young people mixing their own drinks from bottles of Johnnie Walker and bottles of Coke, they will not have a clue how much alcohol they are consuming. The impact of this proposal will be the exact opposite of what the Prime Minister and the Treasurer are claiming it to be. Effectively, they will be adding to the epidemic of binge drinking among Australia’s young people. Originally, I put this absurd anomaly down to the fact that the Prime Minister and the Treasurer are just ignorant when it comes to young people. But after reading their budget figures and watching their behaviour it has become increasingly evident that it is a clear case of simply wanting to hike up taxes under the cloak of doing something positive for young people.