Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Unlike the member for North Sydney and the best and brightest of the coalition—and, no favouritism, I should have included the member for Kooyong in that too; I apologise for that—I think that one of the consequences of this amendment would be that millions of Australians would not get their tax returns. I can understand that the coalition may not be in touch with ordinary Australians and understand how important a tax return is to Australians, but delaying it for some political thought bubble which the opposition still, in some sort of quixotic crusade, wants to persist with is unfair on millions of Australians.

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