Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Put that on a brochure as well. Tell the member for Shortland, shadow Treasurer!

In the serious stakes, of course, the shadow Treasurer says, 'We're fully funded'—just like we had former Treasurer the member for Lilley hit the airwaves last week telling us that the NDIS is fully funded. It completely misleads the Australian people. The NDIS is not fully funded.

It is important when we discuss vital areas of service provision for people with disabilities that we have a real and frank conversation with the Australian people, that we engage them and say that we are borrowing money every single day to fund the ordinary services of government, that we do have to address expenditure. This is not a radical Liberal view. This is not a radical view of right-wing economists.

I think it is that time of day when we could play a little quiz game. Who said this, today—

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