Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker Andrews, and it's great to see you in the chair! I rise proudly to speak on this motion because this is a responsible, restrained budget which eases cost-of-living pressures and invests in a future made in Australia. This is a budget that the opposition failed to deliver in their nine years of government. After all the bluster, billowing and flat tyres from over there, after nine years in government, they couldn't fill a pothole. But they could fill it with the press releases that they were going to do something, but never actually did.

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