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

We share that obligation, we share that burden, of delivering reform and we call on the Labor Party for once—just once—to show a bit of principle. I will give an example of the Labor Party's principles. Today the shadow Treasurer claimed that the reason they followed the path they did on alcopops was that there was bipartisan agreement at the time. Well, there was not. The problem is that they have no sense of history and if you do not understand history, you will never understand the future.

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