QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator CANAVAN (Queensland—Leader of the Nationals) (14:33): To the extent the government has an economic plan, its plan seems to amount to increasing taxes on small businesses via the changes to trusts, on investments via higher capital gains taxes, on property via changes to negative gearing arrangements, and now on people's savings too by taxing superannuation.

Why is the government attacking people's superannuation and therefore people's retirement plans that they've worked hard for?