Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has been around this country making all sorts of extraordinary claims which are blatantly untrue. Whyalla, he says, is going to be wiped from the map. We have a member of this House who is going to Whyalla on 1 July: the Special Minister of State. I challenge the Leader of the Opposition to join him there, just to see whether it has been wiped from the face of the map.

Of course, we have seen this exaggeration right across the board. You cannot trust a thing that the opposition say. They do not have a policy, other than one which will impose a burden on households of $1,300 per household. Then they come into the House and pretend that they are interested in and concerned about the cost of living, and they vote against the Schoolkids Bonus. The truth is that there is nothing about the opposition that is any alternative framework for Australia. All they ever do is run scare campaigns and say no.

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