Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister for Finance, Special Minister of State and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (14:00): The coalition doesn't take any lectures from the Labor Party when it comes to tax. Taxes under the Labor Party will always be higher than under the coalition, because we know from the Labor Party that they've already thrown overboard the tax as a share of GDP cap. The Labor Party has already said that they will increase the overall tax burden in the economy beyond 23.9 per cent as a share of GDP. We are committed to keeping it below, and of course the coalition will deliver personal income tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners. Let me say that Australian workers—in particular, low- and middle-income earners—will be better off as a result of our business tax cuts. Nine out of 10 working Australians are employed by a private sector business, and their future job security, their future career prospects and their future wage increases depend on the future profitability of those businesses. Senator Wong: Good to see you, Mr President. The PRESIDENT: Good to be back, Senator Wong. A point of order? Senator Wong: My point of order goes to relevance: I know that Senator Cormann always likes to spruik a company tax cut. The question was actually about the additional tax workers will pay as a result of this government's increase to the Medicare levy. He was asked specifically about workers on $55,000 paying an additional $275 and someone on $80,000 facing an extra $400 in tax. It was specific to the Medicare levy, not on the company tax rate. The PRESIDENT: On the point of order, I consider the minister to be addressing the question which related to a range of tax issues. There were a range of tax examples provided, and I consider the minister to be addressing— Senator Jacinta Collins interjecting— The PRESIDENT: The question at the end was: will the minister concede? It had a preamble and examples, and I consider the minister has been addressing the question in answering it. I can't instruct the minister how to answer a question. Senator Wong: Mr President, I respectfully request that you consider the Hansard and consider what you just stated. I respectfully request after question time that you consider the Hansard. The PRESIDENT: I will be happy to do so, Senator Wong. Senator Wong: There was no other tax issue raised. The PRESIDENT: I'm happy to do so. Senator Cormann. Senator CORMANN: Thank you very much. The Australian people, if they're watching the shenanigans again from the Labor Party, will be very disappointed. Of course, there is supposedly bipartisan support for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, except that the Labor Party didn't properly fund it. What we have included in our budget is a measure to ensure that the NDIS can be properly funded. All of those numbers are public. All of those numbers are reflected not only in the budget but in all of the documentation that's been released since then. This is just the Labor Party playing games. You are the high-taxing party. No Australian believes for one minute otherwise. Everybody knows that, if left to their own devices, under Labor taxes will go up and up and opportunity will go down and down.