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

I suspect that from the question someone might be of the view that Senator Milne was more interested in posturing than actually getting an outcome. That is obviously a matter of opinion. What I would say is that people in the Labor caucus have strong views on issues of fairness. That is because we are a party that is at its core concerned with fairness and opportunity. There are always robust policy debates inside the Labor Party on how best to achieve that but those are our values. In government what we have delivered are a tax system and an economy which far more reward people who are earning at the lower and middle income levels rather than those at the higher income level. We have been accused of class warfare by the other side. The other side have said this is dreadful. I think it is fairness and I think it is Labor values— (Time expired)