03-February-2012
Portfolio Media Releases
It’s time for Penny Wong to stop trying to deflect attention from Labor’s rolling leadership crisis and start acting like a minister.
“Today we see more nonsense, distortions and lies from Penny Wong in her desperate attempts to discredit Tony Abbott,” Shadow Finance Minister Andrew Robb said.
Her claims that Mr Abbott ‘changed his position again’ over tax cuts on the Today Show are just pathetic and the quotes she produces rely on grubby omissions.
When asked if he would deliver tax cuts should he become prime minister, Mr Abbott definitively replied:
“Personal income tax will be lower under a Coalition government in its first term than it is now, only without a carbon tax.
Mr Abbott then went on to say the only thing Penny Wong bothered to quote in her silly statement:
“We were then saying, by the end of the first term of a Coalition government, further tax cuts would be in prospect. That's what I said at the Press Club.”
“So much for changing positions, the only position change that is truly in prospect is that of the prime minister,” Mr Robb said.
“We know Penny Wong is frustrated at being overlooked for the role of Attorney General in order to escape criticism for her part in Labor’s four record deficits totalling $167 billion and Australian record levels of debt. But this is going too far.
“Instead of acting as a mouth piece for Labor’s amateurish ‘dirty tricks’ unit, Penny Wong should stop wasting everyone’s time and start acting honestly,” Mr Robb said.