Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

If it pleases the Leader of the Opposition, I withdraw. The Labor Party's idea of promoting economic growth is simply to spend money that they do not have. It is not just modern Labor that spends money on things like pink batts that catch fire in people's roofs, school halls that cost double or triple what they should cost and a National Broadband Network that was going nowhere fast; Labor in Victoria is now proposing to spend $1 billion not to build a road. That is their idea of economic growth—spending money not to build a road. This government is getting on with delivering for the Australian people. We were elected to do that, and that is what we are doing.

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