Fatima Payman (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's fewer than 0.5 per cent of Australians with super balances of $3 million who will still enjoy generous tax concessions, but they're not as a generous as they have been—and I do not think that is asking for a lot, when we are talking about what the government has delivered so far for people who are doing it tough out there, including making medicines cheaper, creating 180,000 fee-free TAFE places, delivering on the 20,000 new university places, establishing 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave, making sure that we had the Jobs and Skills Summit to hear from stakeholders, to hear from locals about what issues in those industries we needed to address.

We have established the National Anti-Corruption Commission, we have got wages moving again after a decade of stagnation that we have experienced, and we hear from those opposite that all of this has been rampant spending—it's rampant spending to take some sense of responsibility and to actually fix the mess? It's really tough to just sit there and hear all that.

Senator Stewart earlier quoted one of your leaders; I don't know if it's appropriate for me to mention their name. But last week we heard the member for Fadden admit to the royal commission that he lied about robodebt because loyalty to his colleagues mattered more than what it did to Australian people. So many Australians suffered under the scheme. For what? What a perfect summary of their entire time in government: loyalty to themselves and not to the Australian people. You sit here thinking that Australians should listen to you, to your scare campaign, to you neglecting them and putting yourself first. It really is a matter not just for shame but for you to really reflect. I would highly advise that those opposite really reflect on the last decade that they've been in government and what they've done with that time. Maybe take a leaf from our book on what we've achieved in the short time we've been in power.