Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

as we are hearing right now from the member for Oxley.

I don't mind if you want to come into this place and continually vote for more and more spending and to stop every single effort for the government to show any sense of prudence for the Australian budget. If that's your objective, that's fine. Just own it. Just be honest with the Australian people. There are people out there who will vote for that deception, that dishonesty, that misinformation, that irresponsibility. There are people out there who enjoy it because they see the benefit for themselves. I'm not one of those people. I like prudence; I like responsibility; I would like the taxes to be kept as best as possible for my constituents. I like to make sure that future generations won't inherit the legacy and profligacy of the member of Fenner, the member for Oxley—members who sit on the other side—and particularly the member for Lilley. Some of us actually believe in this and we're quite happy to stand up for it. The bit that's the exception is the absolute incompetence of the former government, who sit there and lecture us.

The party on the other side, the opposition, at their heart have no economic integrity. They do not have an economically prudent bone in their body or their infrastructure—in any part of their objective in seeking to govern this nation. They will always find an excuse. They will deceive the public before the election and find an excuse afterwards. The Australian people actually aren't that dumb. Nobody looks at the member for Oxley and says, 'He's a very prudent man, you know.'

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