Senator KENEALLY (New South Wales) (15:23): I rise to participate in this debate to take note of answers provided today by Ministers Scullion and Cormann. I'd like to start with the questions asked of Minister Scullion by Senator Ketter, where Senator Ketter highlighted that the Turnbull government's Personal Income Tax Plan reveals that the electorates of Hinkler, Wide Bay, Lyne and Cowper, all held by Nationals MPs, are amongst the 10 worst-off electorates. The senator asked Minister Scullion if he'd sought any advice on the inequitable distribution of the Turnbull government's income tax plan and its impact on regional communities. What was the minister's response? The minister's response was to reject the premise of the question. This is not a point where you get to pick alternative facts, Minister Scullion. These are facts. This is the reality of the Turnbull government's Personal Income Tax Plan. The regional communities are going to be hit hard. They are going to be amongst the worst-off electorates. For example, in my home state of New South Wales that I represent here in this chamber, if you look at the electorate of Lyne and the electorate of Cowper, the second question that was asked to Minister Scullion was: have the members for those areas, Mr Gillespie and Mr Hartsuyker, lobbied the government, raised concerns, picked up the phone and tried to speak to someone about the disproportionate impact on their communities? Well, we didn't hear that. We didn't hear that they have done that. They haven't picked up the phone. Apparently they haven't said a peep about how their communities are being affected unfairly by their Liberal counterparts, their coalition partners in government, and the tax plan that they're seeking to implement. Apparently these National Party members in these electorates in the state of New South Wales are quite happy that another electorate in the state of New South Wales, that of Wentworth, is going to be amongst the best off. What a surprise! Malcolm Turnbull's own electorate is going to be amongst the best off in Malcolm Turnbull's Personal Income Tax Plan. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Keneally, I just remind you to refer to those in the other place by their correct titles. Senator KENEALLY: Thank you very much. We know that, under Labor's bigger, better, fairer income tax plan, 72 per cent of the people of Lyne, or 52,000 people, will be at least $928 better off. Of the people of Cowper, 73 per cent, or 60,000 of them, will be at least $928 better off. I turn to the questions asked to Minister Cormann, first by Senator Bilyk. She posed to him some facts that we now know as a result of analysis done not only by the Parliamentary Budget Office, which I will come to in a moment, but also by NATSEM. The analysis says that, particularly when it comes to stage 3 of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Personal Income Tax Plan, there will be higher income inequality; the rich will get more tax cuts than the poor. We know the electorate of Wentworth will be best off under this income tax plan proposed by the Turnbull government. We know that this Turnbull government would like to see tax cuts for multinationals and millionaires and penalty rate cuts for working people. We also know that, in my home state of New South Wales, in the electorate of Reid 110,000 people would be better off under Labor's income tax plan. They would be better off the tune of up to $928 a year. We know particularly that the financial benefits of stage 3 overwhelmingly flow to the well-off in the community, but we also know from analysis released today by the Parliamentary Budget Office that stage 3 of the Turnbull government's income tax plan will cost $10.4 billion a year by 2028, and it will grow at 12 per cent a year. We know that Minister Cormann and Treasury have done year-on-year analysis of the Turnbull government's Personal Income Tax Plan and they're not releasing it. They told us in Senate estimates that they had that year-on-year analysis but they're not releasing it. They're asking the Senate—they're asking the crossbench in particular—to vote blindly, it would seem, without that type of information. One thing we also know as a result of Parliamentary Budget Office analysis is that overwhelmingly the financial benefits of stage 3 flow to men over women at a ratio of three to one. Thirty billion dollars of the $41 billion of stage 3 flows to men—not surprising from a government that doesn't believe that we should axe the tampon tax. They are apparently quite happy to see the benefits of their Personal Income Tax Plan flow overwhelmingly to men. The gender bias deserves to be— (Time expired) Question agreed to.