Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Just as this government has shouldered the responsibility for the last 11 years of fixing up the mess that the Labor Party left us after being in office for 13 years—and while we have a bunch of state Labor governments dragging the nation down—we will continue to identify their fallacies and what they are doing in their policies. The Labor Party, led by the new Leader of the Opposition, can squark all they like about the ‘blame game’. The reality is that Australians want this country run properly, whether it is at a federal level or at a state level or at a local government level. They expect the dollars that we are deploying on their behalf to be spent wisely—

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