Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It is called the GST. You introduced it and you argued at the time that it would not be inflationary. You argued at the time that it would be a one-off movement. So why don’t you go off and re-read your own rhetoric from the time of the introduction of the new tax? You did not just move a threshold, which is what this measure does; you introduced a new tax. So if you want to sit there and make these arguments then at least try and be consistent with that which you have argued previously. I appreciate that you did not have personal responsibility for these measures back then, Senator Abetz. I do understand that.