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

Senator Grogan would know we went out and spoke to Australians and we said to them, 'We are changing our position because it's the rights thing to do and we are doing it because we understand the cost of living is biting and we want to deliver bigger and better tax cuts for more Australians and we want to make sure that more women and more workers on average incomes get a better share of the tax cuts.'

I know that was very hard for the opposition to stomach. Their gut reaction was to oppose these tax cuts. You might remember what Ms Ley said about this—that they were going to roll them back. She said, 'We're going to roll back the tax cuts.' Now Senator Hume is still talking about going back to the drawing board. What are Australians supposed to understand? That the coalition, which has always wanted a very different set of tax cuts, always took a low wage approach to policy— (Time expired)