Mr MORRISON (Cook—Treasurer) (14:15): I thank the member for his question. The member might like to sit next to the shadow Treasurer and remind him what the tax-free threshold is. He will recall that, when he had an interview with Alan Jones some time ago and he was asked to nominate what the tax-free threshold was, he was all at sea. He might want to go down there and have a chat to the member for Lilley's apprentice and refresh himself on the tax-free threshold. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Solomon is warned. Mr MORRISON: Our ambition for young Australians, and particularly those working in regional areas, is that they earn a bit more than $18,200, that they are able to work throughout the entire year. If an Australian were to work throughout the entire year alongside a foreign backpacker working in Australia, in comparison the Australian would be paying on average $132.65 per week in tax but the foreign worker standing next to them would be paying $99.75 a week. I asked in the House yesterday what union those opposite were members of. Maybe they are members of the foreign workers union, because they are the interests that they are seeking to represent in this place. Those opposite think it is a better idea for small businesses to pay higher rates of tax in this country by refusing to support the government's proposal to extend the threshold for small business up to $10 million a year, where they will pay 27.5c in the dollar in tax, where they will get access to the instant asset write-off and where they will get access to the depreciation pooling provisions. Mr Hill interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Bruce is warned. Mr MORRISON: That is what we are proposing to do, and those opposite are opposing it. Instead, they come into this place and say, 'Give foreign workers a tax cut,' and ask every Australian worker paying income tax to foot the bill for $500 million. They went to the last election saying that if they were elected they would come up with a plan that cost exactly the same as the government's. The shadow Treasurer put that in his forward estimates. Well, he lied on the basis of what he has put forward here. The SPEAKER: The Treasurer will withdraw that word. Mr MORRISON: I withdraw, Mr Speaker.