When the leak was first revealed, the treasurer, Scott Morrison, said the government had raised $400m since 2014 after a crackdown on multinational tax avoidance, and he criticised Labor for voting against the Coalition's multinational tax avoidance bill, which passed in December.
The chancellor has announced plans to crackdown on multinational technology companies avoiding UK tax.
He has also muted plans for a new crackdown on multinational businesses who don't declare profits in the UK.
The case against Apple, led by the Competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, is part of a wider EU crackdown on multinational tax avoidance.
And the "war on business" can't refer the crackdown on multinational tax evasion because both major parties are doing that too.
But the assistant treasurer, Kelly O'Dwyer, accused Labor and the Greens of "playing politics" and of delaying the planned crackdown on multinational tax avoidance.
The European commission will redouble its crackdown on multinational tax avoidance next week with the relaunch of proposals to create an overarching corporation tax regime across all member states.
Bowen pointed to previously announced policies to rein in superannuation tax concessions for higher income earners and a tax crackdown on multinational companies, while acknowledging Labor still had more work to do on spending and revenue measures.
The Coalition government played a leading role in initiating and then implementing the international crackdown on multinational tax avoidance through Australia's presidency of the G20 in 2014 and Australia continues to drive further international change.
This "defense of democracy," as she calls it, begins by "fixing what has gone wrong with our international economic policies" through the advancement of international labor rights, an antitrust crackdown on multinational monopolies, the closure of tax havens, data protection laws, the movement of illicit funds across borders and policies to address climate change.
