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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“I raised this question this morning and there was still no answer from the sneaky Treasurer, who spends an awful lot of time promoting 'doubleplus untruths', as we'd call it in Newspeak—I don't want to be unparliamentary—about the impacts and his data, just to spin a line to get himself out of a tricky situation. Have you ever seen that episode of South Park where people get this problem of smug and they can't see through the smug? That's certainly what it's like when the Treasurer is in question time. I raised the example this afternoon of what impact the budget is going to have on trusts. Through our notthetax.com.au website, we've collected a lot of stories that have stepped through the impact to trusts. I'll use this one example: 'In 1968, my first child'—I'll leave out their name—'was born with a brain injury. He lives in care.”
“It's such a train wreck of a budget that we have right now, and one of the worst things is the complete failure and unwillingness of the Prime Minister and the Treasurer to answer basic questions of the Australian community about the impact the budget is having—how it's kneecapping young Australians and kneecapping small businesses, rather than backing them in for a pathway to growth. It doesn't seem to matter what question we ask in question time or in this chamber—the minister barely even turns up, let alone answer a question. They either don't understand their budget, or they don't care about the impact it's going to have on Australians.”
“Will the budget documents, with the sneaky modelling done by the Treasurer, show an increase or a fall in inflation? And, finally, what is the inflationary impact on your budget, Minister? Australians deserve to know the truth.”
“Minister, how much more will Australians give to the government than they will get back under the new tax measures? Will Australians be better off? Minister, does your budget say it will build more or fewer homes? I think we all know the answer to that one—35,000 fewer homes—but I don't think you're going to hear those words out of the minister's mouth. Minister, does your budget say that rents will increase or decrease? See previous answer; we know they're going to increase. Minister, does your budget say whether inflation will rise or fall? Of course we know—but how does that compare to the analysis the Treasurer subsequently released after the budget, with its capital gains tax, which assumed an even higher rate of inflation?”
“Of course, I asked this question yesterday in the parliament, in the House of Representatives, in question time, but the Prime Minister couldn't answer. The third question is: can the government guarantee that, under the budget, a worker on the median wage will be better off in real terms next financial year, adjusted for inflation? It's a simple question. Of course we all know the answer to it, so I'm looking forward to the minister answering that basic question. The next basic question is: what is the total value of off-budget expenditure? We have literally no idea. We now have two budgets. We have the real budget and then we have a shadow budget of off-budget expenditure, where the government just gets away with doing whatever it wants. We'd like clarity on what the total value is of off-budget expenditure.”
“Despite what the Treasurer or the Prime Minister says in saying there's an exemption, there isn't because this person is an adult. So there's a punching down from the Prime Minister and the Treasurer on the financial security of people with a disability. My first question is: Minister, why do your changes to trusts target people with a disability, and why don't they provide an exemption for them when they're an adult, as the Prime Minister at least claimed in question time in the past couple of weeks? My second question to the minister is: what has the government modelled on how quickly the WATO, the Working Australians Tax Offset, will be overtaken by increased receipts from inflation, and, if it will, what date will it be overtaken?”
“So we're going to give them a chance, perhaps, to address some of these problems. Going through the notthetax.com.au website, we've had lots of questions submitted, like one from a constituent who asked a question about their first child, born 1968 with a brain injury. They live in care, and they're unable to tie their shoelaces or add anything such as one plus one. When they die, their child will not be capable of handling an inheritance, or anything that manages, with their siblings. So the parents wanted, through their will, to establish a discretionary trust to administer the child's share of their equity so that they were able to live a dignified life. Under this budget, the government is going to come along and add a new 30 per cent tax on that young Australian's chance to live independently.”
“They're already living with the consequences of the Treasurer's active inflation agenda and, of course, the cost-of-business crisis that's flowing on from that. We're already experiencing record small business insolvencies nationwide, and we also have a record collapse in consumer confidence and small business confidence. But do you know what the answer is to this crisis of confidence? The government thinks we should add a new tax on top of it, thinking it's somehow going to solve the problem. Somehow, between their new taxes on housing, rents, small businesses and investments, it's all going to end up boosting confidence for the Australian people. When we've come to the government and asked basic questions about the consequences of their taxes or how they're going to operate, they literally have no answers. They dither in question time.”
“We all know the story of this sordid, destructive budget that has acted as a wrecking ball through investor confidence in Australia—and, of course, household confidence. In the federal electorate of Goldstein, I have gone and spoken to small businesses, and so many of them are in a state of despair and dismay at the state of the federal budget and the impact it had on them. I spoke to somebody yesterday who said, 'I remember a time where you could skip federal budget night, because it was just the government reporting on its finances.' He says, 'Now you have to see how your life is going to change after the last budget,' because they know full well that the new taxes in this budget are going to be destructive for their small businesses and their chances to get ahead. The small businesses of the country are particularly stressed.”
“And the consequence now—and it's plain to see—is that Australians are having their incomes eaten away and their real wages eaten away by bracket creep. We need to make sure that a tax-back guarantee is legislated that empowers Australians to keep their money. A tax-back guarantee exists so that, when the government over taxes, it goes back into the hip pockets of Australians so they can be control of their destinies, their futures, their families and their communities and build the strength and opportunity that this great country can deliver. And it's only with the tax-back guarantee under a Taylor government that we will build the strength of Australia.”
“They just want to triumphant of big capital, big unions and big business, and they can just sit on top of a big government and pull the levers and dictate the terms. But we don't believe in an Australia like that. We believe in one where people work hard and keep their money. If they back themselves, if they create a small business, if they seek out growth and opportunity and if they work hard, they should be able to get ahead, and their money is their money. We don't want it any more than is necessary to secure the nation and to ensure that we give the next generation of Australians their best chance. That is not the approach of the current government, and you see this in their approach in taxation. They spend to inflate the economy. They then tax it. They then spend it again and continue to repeat the cycle.”
“It is not something to be proud of, but they are suffering under the punitive measures of inflation and the cost-of-small-business crisis, which is leading them to an environment where they are looking desperately gasping for air to get ahead. I was recently in the Goldstein electorate in a local cafe down in Black Rock, and that was the message. And anywhere any of the members on this side of the chamber go, they hear the same stories—small businesses desperate to get ahead. They're often paying their staff before themselves, paying their suppliers before themselves and wondering whether it's worth going on. We know Labor doesn't care about small businesses, and we know that they don't care if they collapse.”
“We don't believe that, when Canberra is doing well, Australian people are doing well. It's the other way around. Particularly for the self-starters of this country, particularly those who backed themselves in small business—we have your back every step of the way. The one thing we will stress is you need hope right now. We need hope. We know, after the latest budget, that all the government is seeking to do is suffocate and punch down on people in small business in the most disgraceful way. The Labor government's legacy already is record small-business insolvencies. Think about that—a record number of livelihoods, a record number of Australians who've backed themselves to get ahead, a record number of those who are employing people in communities who have had record insolvencies under this government.”
“We want them to be able to decide how to grow the opportunity for themselves and their families and their communities and we want particularly to back small business, because the inflation crisis is not just one for small, for families and households; it's one for small business. I know it falls on deaf ears on the other side of this chamber. I know so many Labor members simply cannot comprehend what it is like to back yourself, to invest in your future, to employ Australians and to be able to dare big dreams. It's why the Prime Minister during question time couldn't answer whether he wanted more Australians to be successful next year than were this year. We back Australians to get ahead. We believe that, when Australian families are doing well, the nation is doing well.”
“We don't believe in a vision for Australia where people apply their hard work and effort, where hard work is put in to build out the betterment of a business, a community or of course the foundations of a country just to be taxed away by a Labor government. We believe in an Australia where money belongs in your hip pocket if you've earned it. We believe in an Australia where hard work pays off, where people have control of their own lives and where they're respected. We believe in an Australia where people will work hard and they will be able to keep their money and, if inflation comes along as a silent thief, we will return that money to the Australian people. We want to empower families. We want their freedom to choose.”
“We know the history on this, which is that, when the Labor government runs out of money, they come after yours. I think it was the member for Wannon or the member for Gippsland who just said they can't stop their spending addiction. They have an economic model, and it's based on stoking the inflation. It's based on then taxing the inflation. And then it's about spending the inflation. Wash, rinse, repeat. No matter what happens, they always find a way to inflate the economy and corrode living standards so long as it means more of the hardworking income of Australians is taxed out of existence and back into the hands of the government to fill their spending addiction. We don't believe in that vision for the future.”
“We'll do it by making sure that every year, as inflation data comes out, it will be returned in your annual tax return. It will be a conscious choice. This matters because we know, based on the reputation of the Albanese government, they say one thing before an election and they do something different after. Every single year, the tax back guarantee will be put to the test. When we're in government and when Labor's in government, and they will have to choose whether they continue to support returning the money of Australian people back to the Australian people. Now what do you think is going to happen? Do you think that every year Labor is going to turn around and support returning more money to the hip pockets of Australian people taken by inflation?”
“The tax back guarantee turns around to Australians and says, 'If you vote for us, every year, if inflation increases, we will make sure that money is returned to your hip pocket.' We won't turn around and use the silent thief of inflation to take away your income. That's what the Albanese government is doing. They like to crow. They like to claim. They like to smug the idea that they can take away more of Australia's income while saying they're going to hand it back to the Australian people through modest tax cuts. The truth is they're just acting in a silent-thief-like manner towards Australia's income. Our tax back guarantee is focused on making sure that every year we give a pathway for Australians who experience inflation to get more of their income back and we don't use the income tax system as a silent thief to take away.”
“We've seen in the national accounts today that inflation is part of a persistent problem corroding living standards. While the government likes to boast about what they're achieving in terms of nominal wages, the truth is that real wages are going backwards under this government. There's only one way to fix it, and that is to turn around and stop inflation and to put the handbrake on governments using income tax as a silent method to raise more revenue and take advantage of inflation. We call it bracket creep. Call it whatever you want. It is inflation that simply corrodes real wages and justifies taking more income tax from the Australian people. That's why the Leader of the Opposition, in his budget reply speech correctly said we will introduce a tax back guarantee.”
“They were legislated but had been annihilated within six months from the Treasurer's active inflation agenda. We're seeing exactly the same thing in the bills before the parliament right now. They like to boast that they're somehow cutting income taxes. They come into this chamber and say the Australian people and all the members in the chamber should vote with them. But the real truth is they're going to be wiped out by inflation. We on this side of the House understand the silent thief that is inflation—how it corrodes living standards, how it destroys the effort and the savings of the middle class and how those who work hard to get ahead and save their money are attacked by it. That's one of the critical reasons that this government's economic policy approach is wrong.”
“What do you call someone who raids your wallet, then gives it back and says that you should say thank you for the privilege? The answer is the Albanese government, because what we've seen in the last budget is a government that has broken a series of promises to the Australian community about the taxes that they 'would not introduce'. They got over an election. They got over the need for a democratic test to be held to account, and they've turned around and betrayed the Australian community. When they've done that, they've turned around and said to the Australian people, 'You should thank us for giving us for giving back some of your income tax,' completely deceiving and ignoring the fact that they are actively inflating out any income tax that is offered. We saw this at the last election, where they offered tax cuts.”
“My question is to the Treasurer. This week economist Richard Holden described Labor's CGT changes as 'a productivity-seeking missile that identifies the most dynamic, highest growth, job-creating businesses and taxes them at huge rates upon sale'. Today's national accounts show the sharpest fall in productivity in almost two years, with productivity down by more than five per cent on Labor's watch. Treasurer, why is Labor introducing a productivity tax during a productivity crisis?”
“The government is seeking to betray the Australian community in its higher taxing agenda. We hear from the members opposite, including the 'trainwreck Treasurer', about how good these new taxes are for the Australian community. Well, if that's true, have the courage to take it to an election, because we don't need a coward's castle of people putting policy after an election. It's time you actually own the consequences of it. We heard the member for Maribyrnong before foolishly signing herself up to the Albanese Titanic, because she thinks somehow that this is going to be working for them. Well, as I've said before, it is a bastard budget of broken promises.”
“It's so good to see all the Labor members in the chamber voting to make sure I can give this speech. I know the Treasurer himself has said he has come into this chamber to vote so that I can give this speech. On budget night, Australians who ordinarily may not pay much interest in politics or be interested in the budget, because they go, 'It's just the government managing its own finances,' got an earthquake. The self-starters and small businesses of the nation found out that they were being utterly betrayed by the Albanese government on so many levels. The government has come along and broken promises to the Australian community which they took to the last election, from their family savings taxes to their death taxes, taxes on homes and taxes on rent. It doesn't matter what they are.”
“My question is to the Treasurer. Over the last 12 months, the Albanese Labor government has taken $410 of extra tax from the average worker through bracket creep, and Labor will continue to rely on it year after year. Can the Treasurer confirm the working Australians tax offset will be chewed up by bracket creep within a year?”
“Young Australians, who we've heard so much about in the speeches from those opposite, are being betrayed by the Albanese government. And now we have additional, external research and modelling which shows that rents are going to continue to go up. On top of that, the government's own budget papers say they're going to build fewer homes. What happens when you build fewer homes but you continue to overshoot migration targets? What happens, Member for Groom? House prices are going to become less affordable for Australians who simply want to get into the market and build their own life and their success. These family savings taxes are a direct assault on the Australian people, and they must be stopped.”
“Australians who've worked hard, who've saved, who've sacrificed for the future and who've worked to make sure they put themselves in a position to be independent, despite the taxes of government, are now finding the government want to double their take but do none of the work. As I said in my National Press Club speech recently, the Prime Minister is to small businesses like the person in the group assignment who does none of the work but still wants the grade. This is the problem. The Australian people have seen through the fraudulence of this government and what they're seeking to betray. You just need to look at their own budget papers, which actively say that the changes to taxes are going to increase the cost of rents.”
“We have a train wreck Treasurer who simply fails to understand the scale of what he is doing. He doesn't even understand his budget, and you can see this in the public conversation, right now, where he's constantly throwing out misinformation or wrong numbers. He's hiding behind his Treasury secretary as a form of interference. Their own budget papers say that inflation is going to be 2.5 per cent, but, to justify their changes on capital gains tax, they're now saying it's going to be three per cent. No matter where you look, the Albanese government is betraying and deceiving the Australian people. And the Australian people are seeing right through it. That's why this government is in so much trouble, because Australians know that they have been betrayed.”
“Nobody believes this bloke anymore—the idea that you have a prime minister whose starting position is 'my word is my bond' and then comes and betrays the Australian community with wilful disregard. I understand why he has to keep repeating the misinformation and the deceit to be able to maintain face. I do not understand, Member for Maribyrnong, why you're following up and backing it, why you're doubling down and attaching yourself to a sinking ship. This bastard budget was built on broken promises. The idea that we are going to have members who are going to be complicit, who choose to sign up and stand by it—they will go down with the Titanic that is called the Albanese government. And they should be taken down, because there has never been a budget taken to the Australian community with, as we've seen, such open and flagrant disregard.”
“There is delusion going on in this chamber, based on the speech just given by the member for Maribyrnong. I have never heard such a wilful disregard and contempt for the Australian people. We've heard it from the Treasurer and, now, from the member from Maribyrnong. And I'm quite sure the gaggle of members that follow will repeat those untruths. There were so many references to promises during that speech—'the promise we gave to the Australian people'—with an emotion and an enduring commitment. Have you been missing every day since the last budget, where the open deceit of the Australian community by the Prime Minister and Treasurer has been nakedly obvious to the Australian people? Your credibility has been shredded, destroyed.”
“My question is to the Prime Minister. It's now been two weeks since the budget, so the Prime Minister should be across the detail of his toxic taxes. Can the Prime Minister confirm whether capital gains for small-business owners will be averaged over five years, as in the pre-1999 system, to prevent some of the most hardworking Australians from being pushed into the top bracket?”
“He not only smokes the salt—it goes beautifully on food; I can confirm that—but he also plants trees for offset. There were many stallholders there who shared what they learned about set-up cost, product ideas and how to make things work out commercially. It worked. I was there, and it was something they should be immensely proud of. So, to all the young creators, keep going. We believe in you.”
“Let's talk about good news for a change, because what we know in the Goldstein electorate is there are so many self-starters and small businesses that want to get ahead, so the Sandy Street Art Project and Bayside City Council set out to encourage young Australians to be able to get ahead. Last Saturday in Melrose Street in Sandringham, the council ran the Young Creators Market, a real market with real stalls and customers, and 12- to 18-year-olds discovering what it actually feels like to run a business before they've even finished year 12. There I met so many different young creators, from those creating crocheted items for sale to young people who go to their friends' birthday parties and bend balloons. I even now have in the Goldstein office in federal parliament some of Felix's smoked salts.”
“On 20 May, Bianca Adler stood on the top of the world, becoming the youngest Australian ever to summit Mount Everest, something that should make her incredibly proud. On behalf of the entire Parliament of Australia, congratulations, Bianca, on your record feat. Our community is cheering you on for what you have done but also for what is yet to come. Keep going! One of the most important things is to encourage young Australians to become self-starters and to get on with their lives and achieve great things. Every time people open a new small business, they are encouraging commercial hope and encouraging others to get ahead and to back themselves in. This isn't a speech about the budget; though it could easily be.”
“We're all trying to summit a different horizon in our lives. Many young Australians are looking to the future with confidence, as they should be, but few would say the pathway to success is scaling Everest. Bianca Adler from St Leonards College, though, is one. Since she was little it has been her dream to summit the tallest mountain in the world—the 8,849 metres of ice and altitude between her and the top of the world. She tried to summit once before and got within 400 metres before, sadly, being turned around. She spent months acclimatising and rotating through camps in Nepal. She didn't face it alone. Her family, her school community and her coaches and mentors gave her the tools, the belief and the preparation to do something truly extraordinary.”
“They can't be clear with people about what they're going to do before an election versus the actions they take after an election, and when they get their chance at the levers of power, their solution is to punch down on people with a disability. This government has to end. Debate interrupted.”
“The problem is that it's ordinary Australians who just want to live a dignified life that are left on the chopping block of the Albanese government's approach. This is where the government has got its priorities fundamentally wrong. I can't fathom the scale of what is being done and why it is being done. This government has such a terrible record of allowing programs to become honey pots for organised crime and corruption, from the NDIS to home aged-care packages, to childcare packages and all the way through, of course, to handing $15 billion of public money to organised crime through the CFMEU-Labor cartel. And who do they choose to punch down on? It is people with a disability. What is wrong with this government and its priorities? They can't tell the truth. They can't be honest.”
“They're not prepared to make any accommodations or work with people to be able to improve their circumstances. But there is one thing they are prepared to do. They are prepared to allow organised crime, fraud and corruption to continue to attack the NDIS at every step of the way and profiteer from it without any regard or any serious attempt to respond. On budget day there was finally an acknowledgement after the government was dragged, kicking and screaming, to the scale to address corruption and fraud in the NDIS. They were dragged, kicking and screaming, to be able to affect change and to address the fraud and corruption. Since then they've gone silent. It's quite clear that the government's approach to the NDIS is to target clients first and worry about the organised fraud and corruption later.”
“But that now seems to be, as part of the All ABILITIES Program, something that's been put on the back burner by the Albanese government. In some cases acknowledging the importance of these programs, in particular, for those who have come here with no means—we have a Ukrainian refugee who's even contacted me talking about how their diagnosis of lifelong cerebral palsy is now being targeted by these cuts. They say that English is not their first language and on at least one occasion they have been contacted by the agency without any interpreter present despite having requested one. So we're seeing a decline in standards, a decline in quality and a decline in the services that are needed so desperately by some Australians, and the response from the Albanese government is 'tough it'.”
“They're seeking support and assistance, as is appropriate, to be able to maintain and balance out their life, but of course the NDIS under the Albanese government is not providing the support they so desperately need. We have a lot of people who have faced really serious challenges. One person says that for the first time in eight years the NDIA has had to reject claims for their daughter's special needs netball program. I'm not sure about you, Deputy Speaker, but I think maintaining a physically active lifestyle is very important for young Australians, particularly those with a disability, to be able to get ahead because of the pathway and the social connection, which is a very important part of their quality of life.”
“The NDIS planner that called then—they allege—lied, threatened, abused and patronised. Such was the wanton attempt by said individual to reduce the package of a NDIS participant. We have other examples. People have raised concerns about the NDIS cutting a lot of their funding. Their situation has changed considerably, yet there has simply been no leniency or understanding of the impact on them as an individual. One person went on to say that their right side is affected now and it's hard to cope each day based on their disability. They're suffering a lot because of chest pains due to anxiety, which affects their mobility and/or shaking whilst moving around.”
“One person wrote to me and said, 'It's clear there is wastage which needs resolving in the system, but pulling support from those of us who are trying everything we humanly can do to preserve dignity and independence is really a low blow.' It's a really low blow from the Albanese government, because they were unwilling to support and work with the coalition the last time we were in office to actually bring in a lot of the changes that they're now seeking to bring in. But, instead of focusing on the fraud and the corruption, the way they're approaching it is to target the participants. One person wrote to me and said they received an ambush call from the NDIS over the claims of their daughter, who's five years old, with cerebral palsy. That has a very significant impact on their lives.”
“This person went on to say, 'We're very concerned about Labor's proposed changes to the NDIS, which seem to focus on cost-cutting rather than supporting vulnerable Australians.' I think that's a legitimate and serious concern, because so many people have written to us and outlined their specific circumstances and what has been happening. People have faced what are, in their words, alarming changes which diminish their capacity to access essential care in a very challenging environment.”
“One person wrote to me and said, 'I think everyone realises that changes need to be made to the NDIS, but not at the expense of participant safety. I'm not sure the politicians realise that NDIS participants are reliant on support to be able to live safely in their homes, access the community and live ordinary lives.' Well, I will clarify for one of the Goldstein constituents: we do, but, unfortunately, I don't think that this is understood by the Labor Party, who are too busy always finding pathways to cut rather than focusing on where they need to actually cut, which is around fraud and corruption.”
“We have honest Australians paying honest taxes on honest work, and it's ending up in the hands of dishonest means. Of course, the government is now coming around, finally, and acknowledging that, despite the constant efforts in the period of the previous government, they have let it rip for organised crime, corruption and fraud. The solution now is to attack participants. Certainly that's a perception outside in the community in terms of the implementation. I just need to look at some of the emails that have come through the Goldstein office and what people have raised. You'll understand, Deputy Speaker, I want to respect people's privacy and to make sure that personal conditions are not revealed, but I will use their words.”
“The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, in the remaining eight minutes before adjournment, is of immense importance to the parliament. It's immensely important to have a conversation about how we are going to take the nation forward together. There will be no-one you will find who will be more critical of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and its corruption and fraud than myself. What we have allowed—what the Labor government has allowed, I should say more correctly—is for this to become a honey pot. So many people engaged in fraud and corruption have taken advantage of the honey pot and tipped their hand into the resources of the Commonwealth and the taxpayers of Australia, only then to use them for dishonest ends.”
“My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to your previous answer. In 1999, capital gains could be averaged over five years to stop small-business owners being pushed into the top tax bracket. Is this your policy?”
“My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has repeatedly said: 'We are simply returning the CGT system to what was there before 1999.' In 1999, capital gains could be averaged over five years to stop small-business owners being pushed into the top tax bracket. Prime Minister, in your own words, 'It's time to be honest.' Is this your policy?”
“We can build a future where Australians work to create and build a future, and where this country backs them. A coalition government will back the self-starters of Australia. We're committed to a $50,000 instant asset write-off and making it permanent. Our tax-back guarantee will index tax brackets so the silent inflation agenda of this government doesn't steal your salary. And we'll have a small-business act to protect small business in this country from the Prime Minister and this government. We want your help. Go to standwithsmall.org and fight for a better future. (Time expired)”
“The self-starters of Australia have been betrayed by the Albanese government. We have record small-business insolvencies—eight small-business insolvencies every business hour—a decline in the self-employed and families struggling to make ends meet. Real wages have fallen backwards by three per cent and costs have risen by an average income of $32,000. Australians are already financially drowning under the Treasurer's active inflation agenda. Any budget tax cut will be wiped out by Christmas. Their business model is 'stoke inflation, tax inflation, then let's just spend the inflation'—wash, rinse, repeat. Young families who have invested their first home deposit are going to experience a double hit. And, of course, the Prime Minister has taken half the ownership of small businesses. There is a better way.”