Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move a motion relating to the discharge of Labor's super tax bills from the Notice Paper, as circulated.

Leave not granted.

Pursuant to contingent notice of motion standing in my name, I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to provide for the consideration of a matter, namely a motion to give precedence to a motion relating to the discharge of bills from the Notice Paper.

Colleagues, super tax bills are exactly what the coalition is against. Let's recall what the Prime Minister said prior to the election. He looked the Australian people in the eye, like he did on so many occasions, and he promised no changes to superannuation. Yet what has he done with the Australian Greens? What has he done? They have a bill on this Notice Paper that will take more money from the pockets of Australians, as if Australians were not doing it tough already under this government.

You promised the world to Australians prior to the last election, and the only thing—the only thing—that you have delivered to them is a cost-of-living crisis. On top of that cost-of-living crisis, you now have the audacity to say to hardworking Australians, who go into work every day, who work hard and who are putting money away for their retirement: 'It's not your money. It's the Labor Party's money and it's the Greens' money. And it doesn't matter how hard you worked. Guess what? We want it. It's a pot of money, and we are going to take it from you.'

Let me be very, very clear. This is an election issue, and the coalition proudly stands with hardworking Australians—mums and dads, small-business people—who go into work every day, who do a hard day's work for a fair day's pay. They put money away for their superannuation. Our fundamental principle is: your money, your super. We will fight this government and the Australian Greens every single step of the way to ensure that they do not get their dirty little hands, their little mitts, on your hard-earned cash.

Let's look at the detail of what they want to do; it gets worse. They tell Australians—it's simple, seriously—80,000 people will be affected. Actually, their own figures, from the Treasurer's own department, show it is not 80,000 people. More than two million Australians under the age of 25 today will be slugged with Labor's latest tax grab. So to all those young people out there who might be thinking, 'I'm going to vote Greens,' I say: just remember you will be working hard for many decades to come. You will be putting money away into your superannuation for your retirement. And guess what? There are not 80,000 of you. The Labor Party and the Australian Greens are going after literally one in 10 Australians to take their hard-earned money. Think about that carefully before you vote, because, even if they voted to discharge this from the Notice Paper today, guess what? You've done a dirty deal today to kill off gas, to stop gas—and we know you need to pop more of that into the market—with the Australian Greens. The end result is that Australians will now pay more for their energy under this dirty little backroom deal that has been done by the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens.