Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

What we're getting now is a reference to an article about a Grattan Institute study that has already been widely discredited. This analysis is wrong. It is false. I will send you a copy of the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which completely and comprehensively rejects this furphy. In any event, here you are now saying that we should have more tax cuts sooner. How is that going to work? How are you going to make these numbers add up? The Labor Party is all over the place. Quite frankly, you should have long cut your losses. You should have long accepted the verdict of the Australian people. Australians voted for income tax relief for all working Australians and they voted against Labor's high-taxing agenda and the politics of envy. And here Labor's saying, 'There are more elections coming.' Be our guest. You know what? You can go to the next election and campaign your hardest for higher taxes again. Be our guest. Go to the Australian people and tell families yet again that the Labor Party supports higher taxes. (Time expired)