Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I’m not going to get into that one! I can count pretty quickly, and let me tell you this: if we started adding up all of the individual commitments that members of the opposition have been making, it ain’t a $42 billion package; it is about an $80 billion package. That is the reality of what is coming from the opposition. And why is that the case? Why are we getting that from individual opposition members? Because they do not have a clear strategy. They do not have a plan. They are just looking at this global financial crisis and the situation in Australia as a political opportunity. For them it is an opportunity to attack the government, blame the government, blame the states—blame anybody, but take no responsibility. I will not make too big a point of it because, in the end, it is only coming from an LNP member—the Liberal National Party—particularly a Queensland LNP member who has no authority, no mandate, no credibility at all.

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