Natasha Griggs (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

And clever tricks, yes, Minister. We have an Intergenerational report that says that we have serious financial trouble and it says that we need to take some serious steps to avoid the massive destabilising in times to come. We on this side are prepared to do all the hard yards to make some tough decisions in the best interests of our country. I know all too well the electoral effect of hard decisions, but they have to be made today in order to avoid the catastrophic effects in years to come.

Those opposite would not lift one little finger to help reform higher education, would they? My good friend and the good friend of the member for Dobell, the minister, Mr 'Fix-it' Pyne, is trying to make the sector sustainable, but what does he get from those opposite? He gets Dr No— and 'No, no, no, no'. This is from the same party that doctored the higher education budget figures before the election in 1996. Sometimes I wonder whether the truth is in permanent short supply when those opposite approach the dispatch box. But I do not wonder about the fact that I am so thankful that the nightmare six years of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era have come to an end. The worst of the lot of them—

Ms Butler interjecting—

You are not in your seat and so you should not even be speaking—

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