Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Leichhardt has a hide, I have go say, standing up in the parliament tonight on this motion. I remind the member for Leichhardt: when you turn the first sod at the Mulgrave River bridge, stand up and tell your community who delivered the funding for that bridge project. It was not the Labor Party; it was AusLink under the former government. I certainly had a part in making sure that that particular bridge was funded, as I did for the road funding that goes on in my electorate.

I would also like the member for Leichhardt to look at point (a) of his motion. You say that the budget ‘puts downward pressure on interest rates so as to ease the pressure on family budgets’. Fantastic! You do not tell people that they are not going to have a job, do you. You do not tell them that your budget is putting 134,000 Australians out of work. That is what you have decided to do. I would not be proud of that, Member for Leichhardt.

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