Just to stop the latest rewrite of history re the taxing party ---
"It wasn't until 1915 that the Fisher Commonwealth Government introduced an act for income tax to be collected by the Commonwealth,"
link http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/tax_history.htm
Who was Andrew Fisher ? -------
" Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister three times, in 1908-09, 1910-13 and 1914-15. Fisher was a founding member of both the Labor Party in Queensland and of the federal parliamentary Labor Party."
link http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/fisher/