Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

whether it was the pink batts—I am reminded—the school halls or the ban on live cattle exports, which trashed that industry. Indeed, we could think about the NBN, where the Labor Party developed a program in 11 weeks.

Opposition members interjecting—

Eleven weeks is all it took to come up with a catastrophic project, which it has been the job of our government to remedy, to fix and to move forward. The job of the coalition all too often is to clean up Labor's mess.

The honourable member for Sydney knows full well that the tax policy that she supports is one that will undermine home values in her electorate and right around the country. It will undermine investment. It will discourage investment. It will discourage jobs. It stands in the way of economic growth. It stands in the way of our progress to the prosperity that awaits us if we are able to seize the opportunities of the 21st century—opportunities that Labor's policies would deny us.

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