Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am happy to withdraw, but I make the point that, in a debate on the budget bills in the Main Committee, it is quite extraordinary to find, in the first minute or two, the member for Shortland incessantly interjecting and disrupting a speech I am trying to give on behalf of my electorate. In this debate, we are all trying to make a speech on behalf of our electorates. I find it quite extraordinary behaviour from the member for Shortland. But, clearly, she is quite sensitive about the previous Labor government’s economic record. I have no hesitation in outlining that economic record to this chamber. And as I was saying before I was hysterically interrupted, the previous government left Australia with a $96 billion—

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