Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Absolutely not. As the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate well knows, the government has in place a substantial reform package associated with the revenue from the carbon price and half of that will go back to Australian households. It is surprising that the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate would in fact even ask me that, because I would have thought the opposition would not want to be talking about the fact that they will go to the election saying that they will roll back the tax cuts that the government is proposing. That is what they have said. They might have missed it, but Mr Hockey made it very clear that he is going to roll back the tax changes, the tax cuts, that this government is putting in place associated with the clean energy package, including the tripling of the tax-free threshold, which would be good for second income earners and particularly good for women re-entering the workforce and good for low-income Australians. The coalition will go to the next election saying to every Australian— (Time expired)