QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:06): Thank you to Senator Polley for her question and for her ongoing advocacy for workers, businesses and first home buyers in the great state of Tasmania. The Albanese Labor government is another step closer to delivering our ambitious tax reforms that have three goals: first, to level the playing field and better align the tax treatment for income earned through working and income earned in other ways; second, to help more Australians recognise the dream of homeownership and be able to get into the property market; and, third, to improve productivity by encouraging investment and innovation.

Labor's tax package is pro-aspiration, pro-worker and pro-investment. Our reforms will build a better, simpler, fairer tax system, cut taxes for—Senator Hume, this is for you—more than 13 million workers, support 75,000 more homeowners to get into the market and deliver $3.8 billion in new measures that lower taxes for businesses and startups. And we are reducing compliance costs by $540 million a year.

We, on this side, understand the pressures Australians are under. That is why we know we have to make change. We are making real change that delivers for our economy and for working people.

The question now is whether the three right-wing parties—the Liberals, the Nationals and One Nation—will again try to block these reforms. I figure they probably will because we know what they have done before, which is consistently team up to block real change for Australians. We know they only offer anger.

They do not offer any answers. The PRESIDENT: Senator Polley, first supplementary?