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

The attempt at the last election by the member for Lilley to pretend that $600 that is paid to every family per annum per child—and now of course it has been indexed, so if you add three children it will be $1,800 plus indexation—did not exist was up there with one of the great howlers of Australian politics. It comes from a long line of machine politics in which he was schooled in the state of Queensland, and Australian families would be far worse off if the Australian Labor Party ever found its way into office.

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