Stephen Jones (Throsby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

A very competitive German once said that history repeats itself—first time as tragedy, second time as farce. Karl Marx was wrong about very many things but, if he was looking at the recent collapse of construction firm St Hilliers—which was contracted by the New South Wales government to complete some affordable housing schemes—he would say this is indeed a farce. You might forgive the New South Wales government for getting it wrong once but to stuff it up twice, which is what has happened in the St Hilliers collapse, is an absolute disgrace.

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