Arthur Sinodinos (NSW, Liberal Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable senator for her question. I am aware of the data and what it shows. But the people opposite should ask themselves the question: why did they promise the Australian people a raft of spending—some $16 billion of spending—off the back of the rapidly-receding minerals resource rent tax? Why did they offer that? Why did they con low-income people and the schoolkids of Australia and say that they would get their bonus and their low-income super contribution from the rapidly-receding minerals resource rent tax, which started life as a—