Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I think what is surprising, what has most of the community in awe, is how these guys in opposition said one thing—they talked about debt and they talked about budget emergencies—and then come here and suddenly become financially responsible. They are suddenly realising all the things that affect a budget that they refused to acknowledge beforehand, when they were in opposition. Now they realise—frame budgets in a massive way and need to be dealt with. But they have never had the decency or honesty—and certainly during this debate—to actually say why they have changed their mind on the way and the direction in which they are now taking the budget. The have not, for example—

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