Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Who said, ‘Yes, you can’? Murphy’s Law! Everything that can be said that’s silly will be silly at the most inopportune time. Yes, you can trust the Labor Party with money—Murphy’s Law. The telecommunications operators would have seen the Leader of the Opposition coming. They have said to him, in relation to proposals they already have on the books, ‘Raid the Future Fund and give us the money.’ Eddy saw him coming; Eric Ripper saw him coming. You cannot have somebody who is a patsy for state premiers and commercial interests running Australia’s economy.

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