Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. Where were they when they took over the Mersey hospital and when they did the Murray-Darling Basin and the Northern Territory interventions? Where was the funding for those? Where did the Australian people see the Treasury’s figures for these interventions? There was none at all. That is why some would be drawn to use the word ‘hypocrites’ when we deal with the mob opposite. What we have done responsibly, sensibly and in a considered approach is to try and deal with the financial situation as it exists today and to take a pre-emptive step to try and deal with it in the future. We began this in the 2008 budget, and with the wise use of a surplus built on savings we made sensible tax cuts and considered expenditure on costed commitments.

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