For decades Liberals have been telling Australians that the tax take under them is less than under Labor.
Well Fact Checker just went all the way back to 1983 and guess what, that's a great big LIE!
Our highest taxing PM was John Howard [our petrol parity pricing and the GST bloke] and our lowest taxing PM was Kevin Rudd:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-13/fact-check-is-the-coalition-australia-s-second-highest-taxing-go/100686194