Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Scrutiny of Government Waste Committee) Share this | Hansard source

Absolutely, but I did not declare class war on Gina Rinehart either, by the way. It is a good arrangement. It was a real shame to see several Labor members and several senior union officials in what was, by one in particular, quite a hysterical performance last Friday, trying to play very low-grade politics with foreign workers. That will only do damage to our economic reputation internationally. It will reduce the amount of investment that can possibly come into our country and it will damage the prospects for future prosperity for all the Australians we seek to represent.

This is a bad budget. It has barely one redeeming feature. This is a bad government. The government should go and give us a go to get Australia back on track.

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