QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Dr CHALMERS (Rankin—Treasurer) (14:45): I thank the honourable member for her question. I do know and acknowledge that there are a range of views about the sorts of issues that the honourable member has raised. For our part, in this government, we've already made some changes to the PRRT which will ensure that Australians collect more tax sooner from the export of offshore gas.

We made those changes because we know that there's an expectation in the Australian community that companies who pay the PRRT need to pay their fair share of tax. The changes that we made mean extra billions of dollars sooner to help fund the government's priorities, including in areas like Medicare and housing and all of the important objectives that the honourable member for Kooyong and the government share.

Those are the steps that we have taken. We've taken those steps. That's not often acknowledged when people call for more to be done.

We acknowledge and respect those calls to do more, but we've already acted in a fairly substantial way.