Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Assistant Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

It is a great pleasure to join this matter of importance discussion in this Labor's proclaimed year of big ideas. It is November now and it seems that after 11 months they have had no ideas. We are finally starting to see the full extent of Labor's big ideas. You can imagine the brains trust—I use the term 'brains trust' very loosely—or the parliamentary tactics committee saying, 'We need to release our first big idea, so let's run a scare campaign on household budgets. If that doesn't work, how about we run a scare campaign on the Prime Minister's wealth. If all else fails, let's run a scare campaign on taxes and the GST.'

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