Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One in three of the 100 biggest corporations in this country pays absolutely no tax whatsoever in Australia. Think about that. If you are a nurse, if you are a teacher, if you are a plumber, if you are a cleaner, you are paying more tax every year than a third of the 100 largest corporations in this country. The system is totally broken. Mark my words, you cannot keep voting for the same two parties that support this broken system and expect things to change. If you want change, you are going to have to vote for it. If you want people who will stand up and fight against the big corporations that are plundering our resources, that are cooking the planet, that are destroying nature, that are grinding millions of people into the dirt through their predatory price-gouging behaviour, the Greens are here for you. We have a plan to make the big corporations pay their fair share of tax so that we can do things like put dental and mental health into Medicare, so that we can wipe student debt, so that we can ensure the fossil fuel subsidies that are so beloved of the Labor and Liberal parties in this place come to an end. We have a plan to end native forest logging, to protect nature, to ensure strong climate action. Change is possible. If you want change, vote for us.