Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Well, on the second day of question time after we table in the House this important legislation, finally the coalition get close to asking a question on the tax package, but they don't actually want to ask about the content. They have to ask about time lines. It's pretty extraordinary, isn't it? Well, you know what? What is so interesting is that you fulminated, you used words such as that this was such a betrayal, a treachery or a trickery—all of these things—and now you're voting for it. If you really thought this was the wrong thing to do, you would vote against it and you would say you'd repeal it. You know it's the right thing to do, and the fact that you are voting for it simply proves that.

I watched some of Nemesis last night—not all of it. I just had the computer on iview and tried to fast-forward through the bits, and I have to say one of the things that struck me was the extent to which the previous Treasurer—