Andrew Broad (Mallee, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

What a riveting half an hour! I sat there with great passion and listened to the voices in the background there, and the question I had to ask myself was: 'Hasn't anyone got a calculator?' Everyone sat behind the member for Sydney and they listened with great passion, but no-one got out a calculator. I never thought that increasing funding was actually a cut! I do not know where that came from.

I think back to when I was a young man and I was playing guitar; my wife saw me playing guitar and she thought, 'If I hook-up with him, he's going to be a rock star!' There was going to be this great thing in the future—that I was going to be a champion rock star—

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