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

We will have an election in the normal course of events. But it will be an election, as I've told this Senate chamber already, that will be a stark, stark contrast between this government—which has the track record of growing jobs, of bringing the budget back to balance, of ensuring that we have tax relief legislated for Australian households and of ensuring that we have legislated tax relief for small Australian businesses—and the Labor Party.

To those opposite, you ought to all be honest enough to go out there and tell that to the thousands of Australian businesses whose tax rates you're going to put up relative to what this parliament has legislated. You ought to be honest enough to go out there and tell that to the Australian households who you're going to make pay higher levels of income tax. Australian retirees are going to pay higher levels of tax under your tax policy. There is $200 billion plus of higher taxes under the Labor Party that Australians will have to pay. (Time expired)