Doorstop interview: Corporate tax cuts

CAMERON: It’s interesting to see that CNN Business are indicating that 87% of the tax cuts are going to business and Nancy Pelosi the Minority Leader in the U.S. is saying it’s only crumbs that are going to the workers in the U.S.

 

That’s exactly what is going to happen here. I mean I was a union official for twenty seven years and if I signed off on a letter that promised nothing then I wouldn’t have been a union official for very long.

 

The Business Council letter means nothing. It’s absolutely meaningless and anyone who is engaged in this debate should be exercising a little bit of scrutiny to that letter because it’s meaningless, it won’t deliver anything and people should not be conned, Senators should not be conned by the Business Council seeking to deliver more into their own back pockets, more to shareholders, more to executive salaries, when we should be making sure money is spent on health, on education and on infrastructure.

 

JOURNALIST: The government has announced it will provide $20 million to battery projects in Victoria after criticising the battery project in South Australia. Why is this any different?  

 

CAMERON: I haven’t seen that report but nothing would surprise me from this rabble of a government. It’s a government that is on its last legs, it’s a government that is absolutely desperate and this government should be actually trying to deal with the issues that are important for working people.

 

That is to break the wage freeze that workers are suffering and the cost of living problems that workers are trying to deal with now and any Senator that signs off on the basis of that letter from the Business Council of Australia actually needs to go back and look at some reality.

 

It’s an absolute joke. The priorities for Labor are health, education and infrastructure spending to create real jobs and we have put forward a proposal that will mean more investment and it’s a declared position from us.

 

This government just doesn’t get it and the cross benchers should take a close look at themselves and not capitulate to a letter that means nothing. Derryn’s here and I hope Derryn takes a little bit of critical analysis to that letter, a little bit of critical analysis as to what is happening to ordinary working people in this country because it’s an absolute nonsense what the Business Council and the Coalition are putting forward.