Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

They upped the taxes, upped the charges and indexed it while they were at it. That is what they decided to do to those working families within months of coming into government, before they had even handed down their first budget.

We should have seen the signs, Senator Williams. When they handed down their first budget in May an array of new taxes were introduced: alcopop taxes, condensate taxes, luxury car taxes and passenger movement taxes—taxes that they certainly did not announce before the election. I did not hear them announce that they were going to introduce taxes to the tune of $19 billion before the election, Senator Conroy—I never heard that announced. But they all came gushing in from left field, literally—