Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

GALLAGHER (—) (): I thank Senator McKim for the question. No, Labor doesn't have any plans to adopt the Greens political party's revenue measures that you have outlined. I take note of the fact that you have said that they are fully costed policies, but the reality is that you can promise whatever you like but you never have to actually deliver it. This is the big difference between the Greens political party and a party of government, which has to look at a whole range of competing pressures on the budget and work out how to meet a whole range of needs.

We have a comprehensive tax agenda. We are trying to get superannuation tax concessions through this parliament, for example, which would raise revenue on those with superannuation accounts of greater than $3 million. We've been trying to do that. We've been unable to get that through this chamber to this point. But we have a range of measures, whether it be multinational tax reform or our tax cuts that we provided, which we made better and fairer for all Australians so that they could get a better share of those tax cuts that were designed under those opposite. We have been investing more than any government in Medicare because being able to see a doctor and having that bulk-billed is a priority for our government. The work that Minister Butler and Assistant Minister Kearney have been leading has been all about making sure that we stop Medicare from falling off a cliff, where it was heading under those opposite, that we address that and that we reinvest in it so we can provide quality health care at an affordable level for all Australians.