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

The senator is suggesting that it is important to consider the impact on low-income Australians. I am very pleased the Liberal Party have worked that out. If that is the case, perhaps the Liberal Party could tell us that they will not proceed to the election as they currently are proposing to do, rolling back the tax cuts which are part of the clean energy package, which will give everybody in this country earning under $80,000 a year a tax cut. You cannot have it both ways, Senator Sinodinos. You have had people on your side saying that this is socialism masquerading as environmentalism because somehow we are redistributing too much. Then they come in here and suggest that we are not redistributing enough. The reality is that our package absolutely and unashamedly targets low- and middle-income Australians and the only people opposed to that are the opposition.