Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

wholesale sales tax particularly—all went as promised. But the state taxes that the Labor state governments promised they would repeal, they did not. They just took the 10 per cent and kept their economy-destroying taxes.

The Labor Party have never had any credibility when it comes to taxes and the economy. I can tell you that Mr Keating's Labor government actually legislated for a tax reduction before an election. He said, 'I'm legislating for these tax reductions', and it went through parliament, supported by us. The first thing he did when he got re-elected was repeal that reduction of income tax. That is how much you cannot trust Labor on anything to do with taxes at all.

Thanks to Senator Cameron taking up my time with puerile points of order, which he knew were not valid, I have run out of time, which is a great pity because I would love to continue exposing the Labor Party for the frauds and charlatans that the party and their strategies are. Full of issues, full of making up stories that they know are not true; blatant misrepresentations by the Labor Party. No-one is talking about a 15 per cent GST except the Labor Party and the ABC. They are the only ones, and of course the only one who has come forward with a real plan for a 15 per cent GST is the Labor Premier of South Australia. You do not need to be terribly clever to work out who is telling the truth when it comes to questions of tax and the economy. It is certainly not the Labor Party.

Debate interrupted.