Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government notes that income averaging has been a longstanding practice of successive governments, going back decades. As stated before, a random sample of 500 debts raised by Labor's data-matching compliance activities in both 2009 and 2011 indicate that averaging was utilised to raise debts in, respectively, 16.8 per cent and 24.4 per cent of cases, evidencing long-term use of this practice.

On 1 June 2020, the Prime Minister spoke to the media, stating that the government has great regrets about any pain or injury that has been caused here. But those are issues that we are still working through, and we're making it right.

Question agreed to.