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

There are times in public debate when bipartisanship would be a good thing, but not when we fundamentally disagree. There is a fundamental disagreement between the Labor Party and the coalition about, for example, the pricing of carbon, which the coalition used to agree with, and the principle that the Australian people should get a fair share of revenue from the resources that they own.

I turn to one of the components of the senator's question: cost of living. I remind the chamber, through you, Mr President, that one of the principle policies of the coalition has always been to oppose compulsory superannuation. Those opposite, led by a man who described superannuation as a con job and led by a man who is on the record as saying that the coalition has never supported increases to superannuation, want to come in here and talk about the cost of living. The reality is that those opposite have never accepted the need for— (Time expired)