STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Mr REBELLO (McPherson) (13:48): Labor's toxic taxes do not need a tweak, a carve-out or another Canberra fix. They need an axe. Labor and the Greens, the two parties of the extreme left, have done what they always do: stitched up a dodgy Canberra deal and left Australians to foot the bill.

More tax, more complexity, more pain in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis because you do not repair a bad tax by making it harder to understand. You scrap it. Across McPherson I meet business owners, tradies, investors and young families who've done what Australians were told to do: work hard, save, invest, take a risk and build something for their future.

Labor looks at that effort and sees dollar signs for this wasteful spending. After promising Australians one thing before the election, this government is now trying to tax aspiration and pretend that a carve-out will make it fair. But a carve-out's not fairness; it's Canberra picking winners.

It's a bureaucrat deciding which business is innovative enough, which savers acceptable enough and which Australians are allowed to get ahead. They don't need another tax; they need a government that gets out of their way. The coalition's position is clear: lower taxes, less complexity and reward for effort.

The United Kingdom has had enough. Keir Starmer has resigned. Right now the Prime Minister is making Starmer look competent.

He's running the same playbook: uncontrolled migration, a weak economy, broken promises and taxes Australians were told would never come. It's time the Prime Minister followed Starmer's lead. It's resignation season.