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

to end the intergenerational theft that members opposite have inflicted on our children and grandchildren. That is what this government is doing. We are saving our children and our grandchildren from the chaos that members opposite created.

Having created the problem, they are in denial about it and they are sabotaging the solution. Savings worth $28 billion are currently being obstructed in the Senate by the Leader of the Opposition, including $5 billion worth of savings that they supported before the election. This is a Leader of the Opposition with not a single positive idea for our country. Every single thing we have put forward is opposed by this Leader of the Opposition. The South Australian Premier actually come up with a positive idea. He said we better have a look at nuclear energy. The Leader of the Opposition is even against that.

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