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Milton Dick The question is that the bill be agreed to, and, in accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier, the question now is that amendments (1) to (4) circulated by the member for Hume be agreed to. _Opposition's circulated amendments_ (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table items 2, 3 and 4), omit the table items. (2) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 5), omit the table item. (3) Schedule 1, page 3 (line 1) to page 47 (line 24), omit the Schedule. (4) Schedule 2, page 48 (line 1) to page 53 (line 11), omit the Schedule. Angus Taylor Australians need cost-of-living relief after four years of Labor's raging homegrown inflation. They do need cost-of-living relief, with a broken economy that we saw yesterday, productivity down five per cent and the standard of living down almost four per cent. We see that the only thing left growing the economy is record levels of migration. So we support Labor's $250 annual income tax cut. We support Labor's $1,000 deduction for work related expenses. These cost-of-living measures could have passed this parliament easily, with bipartisan support. But tricky Labor and this tricky Treasurer have deliberately tied these measures to their toxic taxes, using a single piece of legislation, an omnibus bill, for their tax cuts and toxic tax increases. They could have put forward separate bills—one bill for tax cuts and one bill for tax increases—but they didn't, and what Australians see is a bad faith government playing a cynical, tricky game, because that's what they do every single day of the week. Back in 2022, on the day he was sworn in—the day he was sworn in—the Prime Minister said: I look forward to leading a Government … that doesn't seek to have wedges … I reckon he's eaten a lot of wedges! But here is the truth: the Prime Minister's word is never his bond—never, never. Ramming this 'wedgislation' through the parliament without sufficient scrutiny is an act of political expediency—an act of political bastardry! Labor is more interested in h

House of Representatives, 2026-06-04. negative: ayes 43, noes 93.

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Milton Dick The question is that the bill be agreed to, and, in accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier, the question now is that amendments (1) to (4) circulated by the member for Hume be agreed to. _Opposition's circulated amendments_ (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table items 2, 3 and 4), omit the table items. (2) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 5), omit the table item. (3) Schedule 1, page 3 (line 1) to page 47 (line 24), omit the Schedule. (4) Schedule 2, page 48 (line 1) to page 53 (line 11), omit the Schedule. Angus Taylor Australians need cost-of-living relief after four years of Labor's raging homegrown inflation. They do need cost-of-living relief, with a broken economy that we saw yesterday, productivity down five per cent and the standard of living down almost four per cent. We see that the only thing left growing the economy is record levels of migration. So we support Labor's $250 annual income tax cut. We support Labor's $1,000 deduction for work related expenses. These cost-of-living measures could have passed this parliament easily, with bipartisan support. But tricky Labor and this tricky Treasurer have deliberately tied these measures to their toxic taxes, using a single piece of legislation, an omnibus bill, for their tax cuts and toxic tax increases. They could have put forward separate bills—one bill for tax cuts and one bill for tax increases—but they didn't, and what Australians see is a bad faith government playing a cynical, tricky game, because that's what they do every single day of the week. Back in 2022, on the day he was sworn in—the day he was sworn in—the Prime Minister said: I look forward to leading a Government … that doesn't seek to have wedges … I reckon he's eaten a lot of wedges! But here is the truth: the Prime Minister's word is never his bond—never, never. Ramming this 'wedgislation' through the parliament without sufficient scrutiny is an act of political expediency—an act of political bastardry! Labor is more interested in h

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