Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors, Tourism and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Ciobo interjecting

There you go, the member for Moncrieff! Very importantly, on the question of spending, it also said:

Consumers now spend nearly 10 per cent of their household income on meals out, on average, and these additional payments, which will come just prior to the next school holidays—

if we can get them through the parliament—

will be spent in restaurants and cafes.

So there is the Restaurant and Catering Industry Association. The fact is that the only critics of this plan are members of the opposition. The criticism was led last night by the former Treasurer, the member for Higgins, who formally began his campaign for the leadership yesterday and last night. Members of the opposition are always taking an each-way bet, a bob each way. I will bet that there is a very big chance—and I will back it on the nose—that the member for Higgins, the former Treasurer, will be the Leader of the Opposition by—

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