Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for North Sydney from moving the following motion forthwith:

That this House:

(1)   notes the Prime Minister's comment on 11 February 2011, that 'Every time we announce something we properly account for it and properly fund it.';

(2)   calls on the Government to explain where the funding is coming from for its $120 billion of recently announced spending, including spending on disability services, additional funding for aged care, new funding for low-paid workers, increased costs of its border protection failures, funding of new defence projects, establishment of a new dental care scheme and the provision of additional education funding;

(3)   notes that Australia’s debt continues to approach $300 billion despite the Prime Minister claiming that the Budget is in surplus; and

(4)   calls on the Treasurer to immediately rule out new increases in taxes for families and small business in order to plug their $120 billion Budget black hole.

This is a government all at sea. Their own MPs are in rebellion about their wanton spending, which is unfunded.

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