Brian Mitchell (Lyons, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm pleased the member for Gippsland is here—just before he departs the chamber—because he mentioned that the government is like the dog that chases the car. Well, I've got another dog story for him. That's of the dog that returns to its own vomit, and that's the National Party and the Liberal Party writ large. There's nothing they like more than returning to the vomit of a good scare campaign. We all remember, on this side of the House, the '$100 lamb roast' and, of course, the 'end of the weekend'. Just a few weeks ago, those on the front bench opposite were talking about Marxist tax cuts, which they then quietly voted for. The fact is that the whole premise of this—

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