Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

I will give you a further comment:

“The thing I would agree with ... is that the government’s plan is Mickey Mouse,’’ Ms Cox said.

John Sutton from the CFMEU, in the Australian Financial Review, said: ‘I like the fact it asks the corporate sector rather than taxpayers to foot the bill. What I don’t like about Labor’s is it lets employers off scot-free.’ These are your people, Minister. We have allegations from that side attacking us for introducing a supposedly great, big new tax. This is from a government that, long before the global financial crisis, rediscovered spending, taxing and borrowing like drunken sailors. Well before the global financial crisis, the government increased taxes in their first budget by $20 billion. They increased spending in their first budget by $15 billion. They whacked on a $2½ billion additional tax on the North West Shelf Gas project in Western Australia.