Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Ten billion dollars—that is how much Mr Dutton wants Australian taxpayers to pay for their bosses' long lunches. This is the Liberal leader who has opposed higher wages for Australians. This is the Liberal leader who has opposed tax cuts for all Australians. And he now wants to take $10 billion from Australian workers and give it to their bosses to go out for lunch. That is Mr Dutton's priority for Australia. That is his plan to lead our country, should he be given the opportunity.

Our government has the right priorities for building Australia's future. Under our government, over a million new jobs have been created—the most by any new government on record ever. The majority of those jobs are full time. On our watch, we have got Australians' wages moving for the first time in a decade. That's our record.

What else does Mr Dutton have for Australians apart from $10 billion of taxpayer funds for long lunches? Well, in addition to that he's already said he wants to cut $315 billion after the election, but he won't tell Australians what he is going to cut, so every Australian is left wondering what those cuts will be. Will it be cuts to Labor's largest investment in bulk-billing in Medicare's history? We know how Mr Dutton loves to cut Medicare. What we have today is $10 billion in long lunches offered by Mr Dutton and a real plan to build Australia's future offered by our government.