Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

As usual, we have senators from that side coming in here and wanting to rewrite history and talk about broken promises. But I'm not going to be dissuaded from making the contribution that I want to make in relation to the fact that the Liberals, with the Nationals, want to distract from the position that we have taken to give Australian workers a bigger tax cut than they would have had under the previous government. The position that they've taken, in a very short period of time since the Prime Minister made this announcement with our Treasurer, is quite indefensible and untenable. Let's not forget that their deputy leader, Ms Ley, said that they would roll it back, in government, making 11.5 million Australian workers pay more tax. Now, according to Mr Dutton, they will wave these changes through. But what does that really mean? I don't know whether everyone else has caught up with Nemesis, the great series on the ABC, but I think Nemesishas reminded everyone, including the Australian public, how much dishonesty, how much hatred there is within the caucus of those opposite.