QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Dr CHALMERS (Rankin—Treasurer) (14:38): A big thanks to the member for Adelaide for his question and for being a terrific local member in South Australia. We know that Australians are under pressure. It why we're delivering real change in the tax system and the housing market.
It's why we're delivering income tax cuts and higher wages, more bulk-billing and more superannuation. It's why we took the super guarantee to 12 per cent. It's why we're boosting the low-income super tax offset.
It's why we're paying super on paid parental leave. It's why we've got payday super. It's why the Assistant Treasurer is doing a wonderful job on consumer protections in the superannuation system.
Labor built super, we strengthened it and now we will have to defend it from those opposite. It is now beyond any doubt that any coalition with One Nation in it will cut super. They will end super as we know it and make Australians poorer as a consequence.
What they're proposing today means less money and less economic security for Australians in retirement. This is why a One Nation party in cahoots with the Liberals and Nationals is so dangerous. Super is not safe from those opposite.
The shadow treasurer hates compulsory super, Senator Bragg hates compulsory super, One Nation hates compulsory super, the member for Riverina said that they were thinking about— The SPEAKER: I made it clear that the member for Macarthur and the member for Goldstein were on warnings. If you interject and I can hear you when you're on a warning, you'll have to leave the chamber under 94a because there are always consequences for actions.
That means leave. I'll watch the member for Macarthur. I'm watching him like a hawk.
He's the next one if he says a word. He may sit far away, but I've got supersonic hearing when it comes to the member for Macarthur. Dr CHALMERS: The member for Riverina said that he was thinking about the issues raised by One Nation today.
They are all antisuper because they are all antiworker. It's that simple. They would swing a wrecking ball through the retirement incomes of millions of Australian workers.
They don't back workers and they don't back first home buyers either. That's why I think the shadow treasurer will probably be relieved to have been thrown out a moment ago because I heard him ask a question of the housing minister about house prices. It just so happens that I've got a quote here—a transcript—of what the shadow treasurer, in a podcast on 14 July 2021, said about house prices.
Would you like to hear what the shadow treasurer said? 'I've said quite publicly that I'd like to slow the growth in the price of housing,' and he's got the nerve to ask about house prices. Then, he says that he wrote a whole book about it because, 'What we're creating is intergenerational inequity.' Quite right. The housing market and the tax system are making things less fair in intergenerational terms, and this government has got the guts to do something about it.
We're making the housing market fairer for first home buyers, we're cutting income taxes, and we're helping with the cost of living because we know people are under pressure. We are also reminded today that One Nation, the Liberals and the Nationals would cut super and they would make cost-of-living pressures worse, not better.