Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I am just surprised that the member would even pop her head up today, because yesterday, when she asked me about the aid budget, she refused to acknowledge that the aid budget is in this position, because the opposition will not even pass savings that they took to the last election; that they so trashed our budget that we had a $48 billion deficit. Of course the cuts to the aid budget sit fairly and squarely with this shadow foreign minister as part of the cabinet that so destroyed our financial standing. What amazes me is that she actually has the gall to stand up here when she still believes that Africa is a country. I raise this because the shadow foreign minister has repeatedly said that Africa is a country, to the point where the 54 countries in Africa have started a campaign that 'Africa is not a country.'

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