Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Of course you can. People in my electorate can hear it. They know quite well. In order to spend more money on hospitals, the cheque that we give to hospitals in Queensland is greater than what it was last year. If we were spending less, that money would be a smaller amount. Those on the other side are mendacious in their claims that we are not spending more on hospitals and in our schools.

There are 6,400 local families set to benefit from the new childcare reforms. More importantly, the Prime Minister was in my electorate the other day announcing $51.3 million to grow our agricultural exports. We have a number of free trade agreements around the world, but behind that there are inhibitors that mean my local growers can't get into some of these free trade economies because of biosecurity protocols. That $51 million will strategically place assets around the world so that my growers can get access to those free trade agreements. We will also spend $121.6 million investing in biosecurity protections for product that is going to come to Australia. In the horticulture sector—in the agricultural sector at large—we have a clean, green image, and we will spend and invest money to make sure that we protect that. This is a great budget. It is a budget that shows quite clearly the difference between our side of government and those on the other side—who can't be trusted and who, when last in power, did nothing but wreck the economy,

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