Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, the member for North Sydney. I have seen some incredibly interesting things in my time—it has only been a brief 18 or 19 months—but I must say sitting in that House economics committee for two hours on Monday was the most disturbing thing I have seen yet. It is alarming that this government is prepared to give away $10 billion, off-budget, of taxpayers' money without any consideration of the opportunities on which it could be spent. I hope all the members opposite know, as they vote for this piece of legislation, that it is the silver offered to the Greens to make sure they continue to support this government. I hope they go and have a long hot bath or a shower because they will need to; this bill smells. It smells to the Australian taxpayer and it smells of what it is about—keeping this Prime Minister in power.

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