MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE

Senator STEELE-JOHN (Western Australia) (16:54): The community have the very reasonable expectation that the people they elect will go to work for them, yet for decades Labor and the Liberal Party have shown up to work and gone to work for the gas industry—for Chevron, for Santos, for Woodside. They have written and rewritten tax laws which now allow the absurdity that a nurse working a double shift at Royal Perth in Western Australia pays more tax than Woodside.

This must end. These corporations must be made to pay their fair share so that our community can receive the cost-of-living relief that in this moment it so desperately needs. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Colbeck ): The time for the discussion has expired.