Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I invite the minister to reconsider his answer as there are clearly new taxes in the budget announced yesterday. Does the minister recall his statement last year that the tax burden will be less under a coalition government? Can he now confirm that under him as finance minister government taxation receipts will increase to 23.4 per cent of GDP, two percentage points higher than when the coalition was elected?