Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I understand the coalition's position now, it is to give back money from the mining tax to those making superprofits, some of the richest billionaires in the country. Their position is to subsidise the private health insurance of the very wealthy in Australia. Their policy is to provide a $75,000 benefit to families who are earning more than $150,000 per year. And they are going to fund all of this largess to the wealthy by cutting services to ordinary Australians. They have got themselves in the position where they are continually giving money back to the wealthy, and they are going to have to find the $70 billion required to make those decisions by cutting the health, education and superannuation that ordinary Australian families rely on. That is what they have got themselves into. We know before the next election they are going to have to rethink this, but Australians will not accept this sort of stupid economics. (Time expired)