STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Ms PRICE (Durack) (13:33): Labor members today had the chance to vote for bigger and better tax cuts by backing the coalition's tax-back guarantee. Instead, they voted to keep taking more of working Australian wages to fuel their spending addiction. How can those members opposite possibly go back to their electorates and face their constituents?

How can they look Australians in the eye and tell them that Labor is helping them? How will members opposite break the news to their constituents that Labor is taxing them $80 billion more? Labor will deliver fewer houses, not more.

Labor has abandoned small business, our tradies and our hairdressers. Labor has decided young people don't deserve the same opportunities as our prime minister had to get ahead to create a nest egg. What we've seen from Labor these past few weeks has been nothing but deceit and dishonesty.

Not one person in Australia voted for the higher taxes that passed this lower house today. What we have is a gutless and weak prime minister who is loose with the truth. If you truly wanted lower taxes for all Australians, those opposite would have got on board and voted for the coalition's tax-back guarantee.