Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has relevance deprivation syndrome after getting the lowest vote for the Labor Party in 100 years—since 1903. And then, after being looked over and turned over as the people's choice as the Leader of the Opposition, he has the call to come into this place and to pretend that we should be dealing with them when we are having success in the Senate.

We are getting things done in this, the 44th Parliament of Australia, by virtue of the quality of our policies and the quality of our ideas. The fact is, since coming to office, and after less than one year in office, we have repealed the carbon tax, we have given approval to more than $800 billion of infrastructure projects, we are building the roads of the 21st century, we have cut more than $700 million of red tape and we have stopped the boats. And we have done all those things without the help of those opposite.

And now, just yesterday, we have had another success and that success has seen the repeal of the mining tax—a tax which nobody wanted and which nobody needed. It was a tax which was introduced with no consultation by those opposite; a tax which the member for Lilley says was about redistributing the wealth of the resources sector amongst the wider Australian population. But do you know how much revenue that tax produced?

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