Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

If you want to confuse what we are doing in the health area and what we are doing with the Nation Building and Jobs Plan legislative package, I can make it even plainer: the legislation that needs to pass, which you are holding up, will provide a tax bonus for working Australians. It will be paid through the ATO to eligible taxpayers beginning in April 2009—that is $950 for eligible taxpayers. The Commissioner of Taxation— (Time expired)