Page 477 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 24 February 1993
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At 15 per cent you get $126.50. The average cost of a tennis racquet now is, say, $130. You certainly go through a tennis racquet every year if you are a very avid player. Take off the 20 per cent sales tax and it costs you only $104. Take off a notional $5 for the taking off of the indirect taxes built into the current price, which will be abolished, and that gives you $99. Add the GST of 15 per cent and that is $113. Keep these figures in mind.
Any decent tennis player, Madam Speaker, would go through at least three packets of three tennis balls every year. I know that I do. The average cost is $15 for a packet of three. If you take 20 per cent sales tax off it will cost you only $12. Take off a notional $1.50 for all the other taxes built into the price - transport, payroll tax, fuel excise, that sort of thing - and it will cost you only $10.50 for the packet. Madam Speaker, the net result - - -
Mr Berry: What about the coal tax?
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, those opposite obviously do not want to hear about this because they do not want to know the good news that is going to come with Fightback. The good news is that a sportsperson in that position is actually better off each year by $8.79, not counting the hidden taxes removed from the membership fees of his club, and not counting the personal income tax benefits which come from the Fightback package designed to cover any other problems which might arise from the way this package is delivered.
Mr Kaine: To say nothing about the $11 a tank every time he fills up his car to go and play tennis.
MR HUMPHRIES: Exactly. Every time he travels to the club he has to pay money to get there. Every time he gets his can of Coke at the halfway point in the match to have a drink he pays 20 per cent sales tax. That is coming off. Every time he rubs his Dencorub on his sore knee, because he has had a bit of a strain from playing tennis, the cost comes down as well. Madam Speaker, first aid is heavily taxed at the moment. If he has an injury he is paying a lot now. He will get that taken off under the GST. Madam Speaker, any sportsman who heard Mr Berry would have to think, "What an idiot; this is really going to be much better off under Fightback".
Tuggeranong Australian Rules Football Club
MR DE DOMENICO (5.17): To continue with the sporting flavour, I would like to talk very briefly about the Tuggeranong Aussie rules footy team and the plight that they have in not finding an appropriate oval to train on. Some of us who are interested in Aussie rules might know that Tuggeranong's home ground is the Wanniassa Oval. Whilst they are allowed to play on Wanniassa Oval on certain Sundays and Saturdays of the year, ironically they are not allowed to train there. They have been asked to train at Gowrie Oval, which is around the corner from where I live. To be honest with you, Gowrie Oval is not suitable for training. A couple of players who did try to train there the other night did their ankles. I would like the Minister to take this on board because it is important that the Tuggeranong footy team have somewhere to train. Notwithstanding the fact that they recently received a $12,000 coaching development grant - I have to be careful here - it is not very useful if they do not have an oval on which to train.
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