Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, as you know and as all senators know, an election is due in the middle of next year. That is the normal course of events. It will be up to the Prime Minister to determine when an election is held, in accordance with the Westminster system. The election, of course, will be an election that I trust will still be fought on the track record of a coalition government that has delivered record jobs growth, that is bringing the budget back to balance and that is delivering, and has legislated, tax cuts for Australians—tax cuts that the Labor Party intends to roll back. The Labor Party intends to roll back tax cuts for hardworking Australians and to roll back tax cuts for Australian small businesses. Ultimately, when it comes to the Australian people voting, they need to vote on the issues of the day and on the future of the country. And the future of the country will be in worse hands in the hands of those opposite, who will see Australian households and businesses paying higher taxes.