Deborah O'Neill (Robertson, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I had to have a good laugh when I was listening to the member for North Sydney and waiting for the killer argument in this debate. What was the best thing he had to offer us? New South Wales Treasury modelling. We have heard from the Minister for Trade what a load of rubbish we have been presented with. The reporting is a problem and the misuse of the information. The member for North Sydney was using the same old chestnut that his shonky state Liberal mates have been using all this year to try to deceive the people of New South Wales.

The minister has gone into this in great detail, but what we see in the chamber is a continuation of the great scare campaign. Our job is to expose that for the sham that it is. The Australian people are onto you guys. They are watching and listening because they know that you cannot continue to put mistruths in front of them. They will see through them. It is not only the member for North Sydney who is deliberately misleading us in this debate.

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