Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Great question, Senator Sterle! Well, Mr Dutton and the coalition have made clear that they will cut Australians' jobs and services to pay for their $600 billion worth of nuclear reactors. For those playing at home, who couldn't get an answer from the shadow Treasurer in his 'very strange' interview on Insiders: that's how much their nuclear reactors cost—$600 billion. And, to pay for them, Mr Taylor last night announced even more Public Service job cuts. Another 5,000 jobs will now go, bringing it to a total of 41,000 job cuts to Medicare, to Veterans' Affairs, to emergency services and to many other agencies.

We know that the one thing Peter Dutton won't cut is taxes for hardworking Australians. I remember that last year, when Labor made changes to the stage 3 tax cuts, Mr Dutton opposed them and called for an election. Well, I've got good news for Mr Dutton: we are cutting taxes and we are going to an election. In a very short amount of time, Australians will have their chance to say whether they want a Labor government lifting wages and cutting taxes or you rabble over there— (Time expired)