Australia news live: Jane Hume says Labor being ‘sneaky’ on tax changes; John Howard signs open letter urging gambling reforms

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Jane Hume, the deputy opposition leader, accused the government of being sneaky", saying discussions around tax reforms in parliament were much too short to properly address so-called generational" tax reforms.

What the government has done is essentially prevented scrutiny of the changes that this legislation is going to inflict on the Australian economy," Hume told RN Breakfast. She went on:

Apparently, these are generational reforms. If they're generational reforms, well, surely they should have been taken to an election so that the Australian people could decide that.

Two days simply is not enough. There is no need to rush these changes through because they don't kick in until 2028.

Victim-survivors and their loved ones will no longer be forced to sit in court and hear the person convicted of a heinous crime be described as an otherwise good person.

While I'm glad we're finally here, it should not have taken so long for the Liberals and Nationals to listen to victim-survivors and their advocates and drop their opposition to these reforms.

This win belongs to every survivor in this country. ... That is hard-won dignity.

But I'm not done. Every survivor in every corner of this country deserves the same protection, and I will fight until every jurisdiction reflects that. NSW was first. The rest will follow.