Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Member for North Sydney, I would be interested to find out where you are able to find those savings. The member the North Sydney interjects and says that I am better than this. But, Member for North Sydney, we do not run our ERC on the basis of entrapment! You deliberately hand out different figures amongst yourselves to see who the leaker is. Who manages an economy that way? If in opposition they behave that way, how do you expect them to manage a $1.4 trillion economy? That is what they have to do. They have been unable to demonstrate that level of discipline.

I think the biggest thing, too, that needs to be explained is getting $4 million in support from one particular person and then pushing as hard as you can to get rid of all the revenue gained out of the minerals resource rent tax. You have another serious problem there. You have Clive Palmer effectively helping run the coalition's economic policy when you have the biggest—

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