John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

You would not know about them, Senator Joyce. You would not know one if you fell over one; let’s get that straight to start with. The Treasurer identified in his speech and focused clearly on the fact that he was providing a budget for the future. That is what it was: a budget for the future meeting the necessary funding and urgent needs of infrastructure, education and skills development to ease the pressures on the family budget. If you had not ignored those areas like infrastructure, education, and skills, we would not be in the mess that we are in today, Senator Watson—