Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak against the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 [No. 2] for the second time. Senators have already rejected this bill once but, obedient to their political masters in the fossil fuel lobby and heedless of the damage that their budget will do to ordinary Australians, the government are trying again.

Only this government would say that we are in a budget crisis and then axe a revenue-raising measure. Only this government would bring down the harshest and most unfair budget in living memory and simultaneously try to give a tax break to some of the world's largest corporations. In the limited time that is available to me this evening, I seek leave to move the second reading amendment standing in my name, to protect the low-income super contribution.