STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Mr MONCRIEFF (Hughes) (13:49): Thank you, Deputy Speaker, you just assured me that I could speak. Tomorrow, 1 July, working Australians will get another tax cut. Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.

See those chaps over there? These are the blokes that voted against the tax cuts. When we propose cost-of-living relief for working Australians, they grapple with it and then they vote against it.

Ah yes, I see that they know their judo well. When residents of my electorate visit one of the 23 bulk-billing clinics in Hughes, what is the charge? It's free.

When they get scripts for their PBS medicines, what is the charge? It's $25, the lowest it has been since 2004. Good one!

Australians told those opposite at the last election, 'Get your hands off my Medicare card.' Those opposite claim to oppose monoculturalism, but they won't defend the multiculturalism that defines modern Australia when it counts, even if it's eating a meal, a succulent Chinese meal. Tomorrow, from 1 July, underpaid—I'm under what? Underpaid minimum-wage workers will be getting a pay rise—a pay rise not backed by those opposite.

Why did they do this? For what reason? Are they waiting to receive another tax cut to vote against?

This 1 July the Labor government is delivering higher wages and cost-of-living relief for working Australians while those opposite talk down our country. Tata and farewell!