Tim Wilson
Goldstein · Liberal Party · Australia
“Now, we see even more immoral leadership as the Prime Minister and his ministers refuse to audit whether federal money has found its way into the hands of organised crime through the CFMEU Labor cartel.”
“The silence that we heard from our prime minister and our national leaders every step of the way led to horrific incidents like, on 10 November, the protests at the front of Central Shule in Caulfield South in the Goldstein electorate. It led eventually to the most horrific terrorist incident on our most famous national beach.”
“The idea that you would put the social solidarity of the most marginalised section of our community on a ballot paper knowing it would fail is an abrogation of leadership and responsibility and something I do not think this prime minister will ever be able to shake.”
“I've recently been spending a lot of time thinking about what moral government is and what type of government seeks to divide citizens, feed corruption and break trust within the community. The short and sharp of it is that it's an immoral government.”
“But to engage in citizenship stacking, where they deliberately went around and targeted electorates and got people to become Australian citizens on the eve of a national poll, is absolutely disgraceful.”
“There is hope. We can have a moral government again that's focused on uniting Australians and building trust and taking Australia forward together. But the only way we can do that is by seeing a change of government and the end of the Albanese government.”
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“There is hope. We can have a moral government again that's focused on uniting Australians and building trust and taking Australia forward together. But the only way we can do that is by seeing a change of government and the end of the Albanese government. Whether it is dividing Australians on the basis of race—and we need to acknowledge that this prime minister has overseen the greatest spike of racism in Australia's history—or whether it is stacking the electoral roll, bringing people into Australia without security assessments, facilitating corruption from the CFMEU or breaking promises on the budget, this government has broken its promise to the Australian people.”
“Now, we see even more immoral leadership as the Prime Minister and his ministers refuse to audit whether federal money has found its way into the hands of organised crime through the CFMEU Labor cartel. The reality is that we have public money finding its way into the hands of organised crime and with complete disinterest from this government. Even worse, we saw the Prime Minister say 50 times over before the last election that he wouldn't introduce a suite of taxes that he then went on to introduce once he had secured his victory. A moral government is one that builds trust, works with the community and seeks to achieve an outcome to improve the whole of the nation. We presently have an immoral government that is focused on how it divides the Australian community and leaves us in a weaker position to save their own electoral bacon.”
“But to engage in citizenship stacking, where they deliberately went around and targeted electorates and got people to become Australian citizens on the eve of a national poll, is absolutely disgraceful. Not only that; we've seen that the minister has brought in people from overseas conflict zones and bypassed identity, health and security assessments as part of the pathway to bring them into Australia, without any proper measure of who people are, whether they are unsafe for the Australian community and whether they pose a threat to the rest of us. This is not a debate about the individuals; it's a debate about government policy. It was an immoral act by this government.”
“The silence that we heard from our prime minister and our national leaders every step of the way led to horrific incidents like, on 10 November, the protests at the front of Central Shule in Caulfield South in the Goldstein electorate. It led eventually to the most horrific terrorist incident on our most famous national beach. That is an unforgivable failure of leadership—an immoral failure of leadership—by this government. But it didn't just end there. What we've seen at every point is that this government has been prepared to eat into the equity of the spiritual nature of our country, eat into the character of who we are, for their own political survival. You just need to look at what they did in the lead-up to the last election. I know the Labor Party is used to branch stacking to be able to achieve an outcome they seek.”
“The idea that you would put the social solidarity of the most marginalised section of our community on a ballot paper knowing it would fail is an abrogation of leadership and responsibility and something I do not think this prime minister will ever be able to shake. He took not just social solidarity but reconciliation, to bring our nation united, to move forward together, and made sure it would fail. Even in the days leading up to that referendum, there was the complete failure of moral leadership we saw as the events of 7 October 2023 unfolded. On 8 October 2023, we had protesters saying despicable and horrific things on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. This was a moment where we needed leaders to stand up and call out antisemitism and speak to the type of character and country we wanted to be.”
“I've recently been spending a lot of time thinking about what moral government is and what type of government seeks to divide citizens, feed corruption and break trust within the community. The short and sharp of it is that it's an immoral government. I want to make this clear: it is now a moral imperative to remove the most immoral government in Australia's history, the Albanese government. I don't say this lightly. Right from the moment it was first elected, it sought to divide Australians. It sought to have a referendum based on the social solidarity of our most marginalised population. I fully respect the fact that it had a right to do that by putting the voice to the Australian people. What's immoral about their choice is that they knew it would fail.”
“We need to make sure we're stewards who hand forward to the next generation a better country than the one we inherited. At the age of 11, you can already see the type of Australia we should want and we should be building. I hope for the generations to come that they will reflect on your important words of 'One Australia. One Heart', which tells a direct story about the type of nation that we should want to be.”
“Ruth Sharma is 11 years old and she felt compelled to write a speech defending the right of every family to belong. No child should have to make this case. In Ruth's own words: Australia belongs to everyone—no matter who you are, or what religion you practise. We share a common bond that unites us. Ruth Sharma didn't write 'One Australia. One Heart' because she wanted to. She wrote it because she felt she had to. That should tell this parliament everything it needs to know about the challenges young Australians face and the importance of unity. We don't want a government that divides us. We don't want alternatives that divide us. What we want is a country of one land and one people with one destiny. So thank you, Ruth. Thank you for your courage and for reminding this parliament what we owe every child in this country.”
“The failure of leadership continued to cascade all the way up to the worst terrorist attack on our nation's soil, on the beaches of Bondi. That's why I made a formal submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion documenting these incidents in detail and on the record. That's because law alone won't fix this. We need leaders willing to properly diagnose the problem and set the standard of behaviour our country has been missing, a lack of standard which, sadly, our government has allowed to fester. I really hope this parliament will read the evidence and make judgement calls on the recommendations from the final royal commission, because we want an Australia where everybody feels that they are part of our common journey and building a better nation for everybody. What does it mean to belong for young Australians?”
“How bad does antisemitism have to be for the Australian government to act? Since 7 October 2023, we have seen a cascading series of problems of antisemitism in our community. It's been consistent. It's been successive. We've seen a fundamental failure of leadership. We've seen a failure at every point to condemn the acts of antisemitism in our country at a scale that should never have been permitted. We saw it on 8 October on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. It doesn't matter what version of history you want to interpret, there was no place for people simply screaming out and demanding to take retribution for horrific acts overseas. We saw it on 10 November in 2023 out the front of Central Shule in Caulfield South in the Goldstein electorate.”
“That's why we're going to introduce our tax-back guarantee—so that $250 tax cut isn't some sort of luxury of a government but permanent and making sure the silent thieves in the night that are Labor governments can't get away with it again.”
“The fact that the Prime Minister sits in that chair and will not even audit whether federal public money finds its way into the hands of corrupt organised crime and the CFMEU is an embarrassment to his government, and every single Labor member should look at this government and feel embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with it. We have seen it on the public record in the state of Victoria, and now that model is being nationalised across the country. It is a model that is anchored in corruption, a model that is built in stealing the money of the Australian people and the Victorian people and handing it to criminal networks, and it must end. But, even more than that, end the inflation cycle, which has meant that we have a government that acts as a silent thief shoving its hand into the hip pocket of Australians.”
“We can have an end to the inflation cycle this government is actively stoking if we have a government which has the courage to actually focus on ending the corruption and fraud in the NDIS, the courage to end the corruption and fraud in home aged-care packages, the courage to end the corruption and fraud in child care and the enrolment of children and, most importantly—and this is the one thing you will never see from a federal Labor or state Labor government—the courage to end the corruption in the CFMEU and, in particular, taking public money and handing it to organised crime.”
“They want to get ahead, and there is an opportunity to end this government and particularly its active inflation agenda. The governance model that the Treasurer has brought forward is to stoke inflation, tax inflation, spend the inflation and keep the cycle going. What they've done as a process is continuing to put upward pressure on interest rates. That can end.”
“It's to prioritise their interests over the best interests and objectives of the Australian people, and what we've seen once they gain control of the hip pockets of Australians is how they dole the patronage out left, right and centre, without any accountability, to their friends and to their mates across the economy. This government is not interested in the Australian people. This government is interested in themselves and their control. The brutal truth is they—let's just say to keep it parliamentary—break promises so easily, so calmly, so comfortably that someone could even inject another term instead of 'broken promises'. This government has never had any shame in understanding that truth is a luxury as their governance model. Well, there is a future and there is hope. Australians do believe in and want to back themselves.”
“In my lifetime I've never seen a government that has so rigidly and objectively tried to declare war on not just the country today but the future ambitions of Australians to get ahead for tomorrow. The impact of this government on Australians is going to be long, because its focus is solely on how it preserves and conserves its own power against the direct interests and advancement of the Australian people. But, more than anything else, this government is so broken because of where it sees its priorities. The traditional model of redistribution is to take from the rich and to give to the poor. They like to dress themselves up as modern-day Robin Hoods, but the reality is completely different. This government has specialised redistribution, and its redistribution is to take from the Australian people and feed themselves.”
“We're now seeing them test the very fundamentals of economics. They have turned a blind eye to or actively stoked illegal tobacco trade through organised crime. That's pushed right through the Laffer curve, and there are now fewer legal cigarettes in the marketplace and less tax revenue. Now they're going to try exactly the same principle across the nation by shutting down businesses, actively discouraging reward of effort and incentive to get ahead, particularly targeting the many people who back themselves—the self-starters, the small businesses and those who are not going to be leaving or exiting because they have to pay more tax but because they see the decline in talent.”
“So not only can they not keep their hands out of the hip pockets of Australians; they're now raiding the hip pockets of future generations as well. The simple metrics show just how bad this government is. Cost-of-living pressure under this government: insurance up by 42 per cent; electricity up by 38 per cent, despite the incredible sunshine we've just heard all about; gas up by 37 per cent; rents up by 23 per cent; education up by 21 per cent, health care up by17 per cent; and food and grocery costs up by 17 per cent. We have an axis of arrogance with this government, where they simply are disconnected from the lived experience of Australians. Since the election we've seen a series of budget broken promises, whose only solution is to then go after more of Australians' money, because the government cannot manage its own.”
“Australians are trying and working harder, they're working longer hours and they're falling further behind. And it's not because they're doing anything wrong. It's because the government can't keep its mitts out of people's hip pockets. And because they can't control their spending, what do they do? They come after yours. That is the consistent theme of a Labor government. They have no sense of respect for the hard work, savings and sacrifice of Australians. Instead, they see Australians' money as their money, as a pathway to their control, to be able to dictate the terms of how people live. Gross debt is crossing $1 trillion for the first time in 2026-27. And let's remember this: today's debt is tomorrow's taxes.”
“And the only response from those opposite is to celebrate, to cheer, to toast falling house prices, without any recognition that that is often people's savings, their hard work, reflected in asset that provides the economic security for their family and often for a small business as well. Household savings are now 6.2 per cent of income. Let's be clear about this: 6.2 per cent of income, down from 11.3 per cent when the Albanese government got elected. To keep their head above water, people are having to eat into their savings, just to stay afloat. GDP per capita is not higher than when Labor took office. In fact, we've seen it fall in 10 of the 16 quarters since the change of government. Australians are now paying 38.5 per cent more income tax. Think about that.”
“Australian households are being stretched, budgets are being stretched, and Australians are finding it harder not just to get ahead but just to keep themselves above water. We now have interest rates at 4.35 per cent the highest since 2011, and we've had 15 interest rate rises under this government. Australian families on a typical mortgage are now paying $29,400 a year. And let's remember this: that isn't $29,400 of pre-tax income; it's post-tax income. Many households simply cannot absorb that cost. So what a surprise that while we're seeing interest rates go up we're also seeing a big problem with the housing market and prices going down.”
“The only answer the government is giving, the only answer this Prime Minister is giving, is Australians have never had it so good. Australians want to get ahead. They want a sense of confidence for the future, and they have a prime minister who throughout question time has extolled the virtues of the government, constantly referring to how great his government is and how Australians should be thankful and appreciative for the incredible efforts from himself and his government. Well, let's look at some facts. Inflation is at 4 per cent. We are constantly seeing more debt—petrol poured on the inflation fire by the federal Treasurer—and as a consequence interest rates continue to rise.”
“Well, we just got through question time, but I can assure you there was no sunshine that came out of those answers because, right now, there has never been a time when Australians have done it so tough and yet the government continues to lord over them. This Prime Minister lords over them that they have never had it so good. We've never seen or faced a time where the government is so out of step and so out of touch with the lived experience of what Australians are living right now, where they go to the supermarket and every time they put something in a red basket, they're not just paying more, but they're getting less. It is the same with the trolley. If you're trying to build a home, you're having the costs rise every single day.”
“My question is to the Minister for Housing. Labor's correction in house prices means the value of an Australian home could collapse by 10 to 20 per cent, smashing Australia's nest egg. Did the minister receive or review any advice from Treasury or APRA about how many first home buyers will be pushed into negative equity because of Labor's deliberate correction?”
“He wants inflation to be the silent thief in the night so he doesn't get caught with his hands in your pocket. What he's doing is charging—and, of course, it's going to be the same thing with taxes. That's why the coalition's tax back guarantee will return overtaxation from inflation automatically. We're on your side. The coalition actually backs Australians and their wages to hold their money. We think you should have it better. We will draw a line under the Treasurer's tricky take.”
“The Albanese government is not so big on truth bombs, but they're definitely big on inflation bombs. The first of July this year brings in the next round of consequences from the Treasurer's active inflation agenda, where he stokes inflation, taxes inflation then spends inflation, and he's got families and small businesses on his hip list. The Treasurer keeps pouring debt petrol on the inflation fire, and what's the consequence? Well, because he can't control his spending addiction, many fees automatically go up because of indexation. Company registration fees will go up. Business registration fees will go up. NBN plans will go up by 10 bucks. The cost of sending a parcel will go up by close to five per cent, and the price of fuel will increase too. That's the way the Treasurer likes it.”
“My question is to the Minister for Housing. Yesterday, the Minister for Housing revealed Labor's budget of broken promises and higher taxes will see the value of an Australian home collapse by up to 20 per cent. This could see negative equity loans rise to roughly one in 20 and leave homeowners owing more than their home is worth, smashing their nest egg. How many Australians will become poorer because of Labor's deliberate correction in house prices?”
“My question is to the Prime Minister. Core inflation has risen from three per cent to 3.6 per cent over the last year. Under this Treasurer, interest rates have gone up 15 times, increasing the cost of a typical new mortgage by $30,000 a year. Following the Treasurer's failed budget of broken promises and higher taxes, was the Treasurer's promise that 'inflation has turned the corner' a further broken promise, or is it just due to economic incompetence?”
“We all know that if you actually want to achieve regulatory reform, if you want to build a better Australia and if you want to see a change and a direction that builds out the future growth of the Australian economy, we need a change of government. To that end, I commend the bill to the House. Debate adjourned.”
“At a time when Australian businesses are carrying a regulatory burden worth hundreds of billions of dollars—and, yes, it is that high—and when productivity growth has stalled—yes, it definitely has—this bill represents only a modest step forward or, arguably, more like a single step forward. Australia needs a more ambitious agenda for deregulation, productivity and economic growth. For those reasons, while the coalition will not oppose this bill in the House of Representatives, we believe the matters raised in relation to transparency and procedural fairness warrant further examination, and we will be seeking a Senate inquiry into this bill to achieve that objective.”
“They're about preserving accountability and fairness. Australians should be able to see how taxpayers' money is being spent. Individuals should be informed when serious allegations are being made against them. Those are not administrative inconveniences, unless you're a Labor government. They are fundamental principles of good government, which is probably why they're being thrown by the wayside. This bill contains some worthwhile reforms, but it also demonstrates the limits of the government's approach to regulatory reform. At a time when Australia's productivity challenge is becoming more acute, Australians should expect more than legislative housekeeping dressed up as regulatory reform.”
“That is a very real risk from this change. While administrative efficiency is important, it cannot be the sole consideration. Taken together, those transparency and procedural fairness concerns warrant closer examination. That is why the coalition believes this bill should be referred to a Senate inquiry. The coalition supports sensible deregulation. We support reducing unnecessary red tape. We support making it easier for Australians and Australian businesses to interact with government. There are measures in this bill that achieve those objectives, and they deserve support. But there is an important distinction between removing burdensome bureaucracy and removing safeguards that protect transparency and procedural fairness. The concerns we have raised today are not about preserving unnecessary regulation.”
“The explanatory memorandum argues that these individuals are not parties to the complaint and are not subject to legal consequences arising from it, but that misses the point. An allegation can still have serious reputational consequences. It can still concern personal conduct, and it can still form part of a process being considered by a statutory body. At a minimum, individuals should have the opportunity to know that allegations concerning them have been raised. Let's face it; every single Labor member has a right to know that the Australian people currently think that they have a very loose relationship with the truth. If similar allegations are made against others, perhaps they should know as well. Imagine finding out that you've been named in a complaint by doing a Google search of your name.”
“Having been Australia's human rights commissioner, I do have a mild insight into these matters. The government's justification for this change is that its notification process is inefficient, creates confusion and adds administrative burden for the commission. Not unreasonably, I think that, if complaints are made against somebody, they should probably know about them. But procedural fairness should not be sacrificed simply because a process is administratively convenient. Just like the truth and just like a policy one took to the last election, you can't just change your position because it suits you. If an adverse allegation is made about an individual, that person should be made aware of it. That principle should apply regardless of whether they are formally named as a respondent to the complaint.”
“Instead, we continue to see measures that reduce scrutiny and make it harder for the public to understand how taxpayer money is being spent. The government says that this is a minor administrative change, but transparency measures are often only noticed when they are removed. If the government wants to streamline reporting, it should do so without diminishing public scrutiny, while ensuring Australians can easily find information about how taxpayers' money is being spent. The other item of concern in this bill is contained in schedule 2, part 4. This item removes the requirement of the Australian Human Rights Commission to notify a person when an adverse allegation has been made about them in a discrimination complaint, where they are not themselves a respondent to the complaint.”
“When the trust has been utterly destroyed by this Labor government through their betrayal of the Australian people and saying one thing before an election and then doing something explicitly directly after in deceit of the Australian people, we should be making it easier for Australians to see how taxpayers' money is being spent, not requiring them to search through consolidated reports on a different department's website to find answers. Transparency should not be viewed as an administrative burden. It is a fundamental element of public accountability. This proposal is particularly concerning given the government's repeated promises about openness and transparency. But, let's face it, no-one really believes them anymore. Australians were promised the most transparent government ever.”
“This change centralises that reporting into a single annual Finance report, making it harder to find, harder to compare and harder for the public to scrutinise. What a shock—a Labor government hiding information from the Australian people, because how dare Australians ask simple questions! Transparency is not just about whether information exists somewhere in government; it's about whether that information is accessible, discoverable and easy for Australians to find. Good transparency measures should bring information closer to the public, not move it further away. At a time when trust in institutions is under pressure—that's a very generous way of putting it.”
“The coalition would hate to see that being taken advantage of for less information to be provided to the Australian public about the money being spent on government campaigns. The second is that the change makes it more difficult for ordinary Australians to track down how much is being spent on campaigns by the relevant agency or department. So, if an Australian wants to know how much the department of employment spent on a campaign, their first instinct is to look at the department of employment's website. That is not unreasonable. If they want information about a Treasury campaign, they do the same to the Treasury website. That is exactly where the information is available today.”
“They do not explicitly require disclosure of payments made for polling, market research or other related services, which are, of course, something we know the government will have spent an awful lot of money on in the lead-up to the last budget, and no doubt they'll be market testing every other of their—it's too generous to use the word 'ideas'. Let's just say 'positions', because you never quite know when they're going to change next. The Department of Finance does produce a consolidated report on campaign advertising for all government departments and agencies published in December of each year. However, there are two points to make about these reports. The first is that there is no explicit requirement in the PGPA for disclosure of market research.”
“Part 3 of schedule 2 repeals section 311A of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, which currently requires Commonwealth entities to disclose payments made to advertising agencies, market research organisations, polling organisations, direct mail organisations and media advertising organisations. The government claims that this reporting requirement is unnecessary because Commonwealth entities are already required to disclose information about advertising campaigns under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014, but that is not an equivalent transparency measure. What a shock—this government is trying to hide something again, including the truth. The PGPA reporting requirement only requires departments and agencies to disclose advertising campaigns they have undertaken.”
“These are practical reforms that reduce duplication, improve service delivery and make interactions with government less frustrating for individuals and businesses alike. But there are also measures in this bill that simply won't shift the dial. Take, for example, the two measures which repeal the two acts that have been made redundant, two measures that will make the statute book cleaner, but they are not reforms that will materially reduce costs for businesses, households or taxpayers. While the coalition will not be opposing this bill in the House, there are, however, two measures that are of concern.”
“The intellectual property reforms, including changes to trademarks and plant breeders' rights, will reduce unnecessary administrative burdens and make it easier for Australian businesses and innovators to protect their ideas and bring new products to market. That's good. Likewise, the antidumping measures will improve the efficiency of Australia's trade remedies system by speeding up decision-making processes and reducing delays for businesses seeking refunds and reviews. We also support the 'tell us once' reforms. The coalition announced a commitment to these principles before the last election. Once again, Labor is following the coalition. So we remain pleased to see the government embrace this idea. Australians rightly expect government agencies to work together and make better use of information that has already been provided.”
“Many of the measures in the bill are modest administrative changes that will benefit specific groups of businesses, individuals and government agencies, but they are not the kind of reforms that will materially shift Australia's productivity or reduce the growth of compliance burden for business. If the government genuinely believes regulatory reform is a key productivity lever, then Australia needs reforms that tackle the major drivers of compliance costs faced by businesses. Let's look at what this bill actually seeks to achieve. The bill includes 21 measures amending 26 acts and repealing two acts, affecting 19 Commonwealth government agencies. There are sensible measures throughout it. There are provisions that simplify administrative processes, reduce duplication and make government systems work more effectively.”
“That's time taken away from customers, staff and growth. Reducing duplication would ease costs and support stronger productivity growth across the economy. At a time when productivity is flat and has already fallen more than five per cent under this Labor government, lifting productivity and encouraging growth should be a paramount focus for the government. Labor says this bill, to quote the minister's second reading speech directly, 'will support the government's work to build an economy that is more dynamic, more resilient and more productive for all Australians'. I'd like to believe that, but we know the loose relationship with the truth that this government has. This bill is a fine step towards simplifying and removing some unnecessary regulation, but it is only a small step.”
“Board time on compliance has doubled from 24 per cent to 55 per cent. So, there you go, half the time of a board is spent focused just on managing regulation and regulatory compliance. That's happened in 10 years, while the external legal spend now sits at $16 billion, up from $6 billion in 2010. You can see why, prior to the budget, we saw the Alliance of Industry Associations, made up of nearly 30 groups representing small, medium and large businesses and universities, calling on all levels of government to reduce red tape costs and commit to a 25 per cent reduction in unnecessary regulation by 2030. But it fell on deaf ears. As COSBOA CEO Skye Cappuccio said: For small businesses, red tape often means hours each week spent navigating compliance complexity instead of running their business.”
“Australia's administrative and regulatory burden is the second-highest in the G7, behind only Japan, and we rank 37th out of 43 on the OECD ranking for administrative and regulatory burden. Small businesses spend the equivalent of nearly a full day each week on business activity statements, wage awards, licences, insurance and privacy obligations. Of course, this is to the advantage of those who are the brokers in these conversations—in particular, trade unionists—but it is not good for Australians or workers. Forty per cent of owners say payroll tax and workplace laws stopped them hiring staff in the past year. According to the OECD, the cost to businesses of complying with federal regulations has risen to $160 billion, 5.8 per cent of GDP, up from $65 billion, 4.2 per cent of GDP, in 2013.”
“Today I speak on the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill 2026. The coalition will not oppose this bill through the House of Representatives, but we will reserve our position in the Senate. Reducing red tape and unnecessary regulation is something the coalition strongly supports. Good regulation, to the extent it exists, protects Australians, but excessive, complex regulation increases costs for businesses and households. It slows down investment and discourages innovation and, more importantly, it constrains time, investment and building out the future of Australia. Reducing red tape isn't just about removing safeguards; it's about ensuring that regulation serves the public interest efficiently, making sure that capital is deployed and that energy and investment are going where they need to go to build out a better country for us all.”
“We believe that people should keep the money that they earn, and that's why we put forward our Tax Back Guarantee, which explicitly says, when the government to continues to inflate the costs of wages and as people's incomes rise but are overcome by inflation, that they're able to get that money back and keep it in their hip pocket to be able to decide their own futures. That's why we backed small business, unapologetically. If you are in a small business in this country, the Australian government should be cheering you on. And it's why we support an instant asset write-off of up to $50,000, and making it permanent. But, more than anything, we have faith in the Australian people. We believe in the Australian people—their power and their potential. The tragedy is that they're witnessing attacks on them by the Albanese government.”
“While we've got Labor trying to divide the Australian people on the left and we've got other parties trying to divide Australians on the far right, we believe, in the coalition, in a way forward that unites our country, where we make sure hard work pays off, where people are in control of their own lives and where they feel a basic sense of honesty and respect from their government, as well as a culture built on respect where people are able to get ahead. We believe that because we do not believe the government continues to stoke inflation, tax inflation and spend inflation that continues to take away the incomes of real Australians and increase the costs that are applied to households as they try to just keep their heads above financial water.”
“Australians fundamentally believe that we should have honest government. Australians fundamentally believe that we should have open government, and Australians fundamentally believe that we should have a system where they're in control of their own lives and where they feel a basic sense of respect from the government that's supposed to be there to serve them. This is where this Labor government has got it the wrong way round. They think that people are there to conform to them. Actually, the Australian government's job is to serve the Australian people. What we have seen from this government is punching down every step of the way every time somebody stands up or speaks out about the ruinous consequences of that budget. But there is hope. There is a way forward.”