Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, even the Leader of the Opposition has conceded that the proposed hole in the surplus is gigantic. This is what the Leader of the Opposition told Laurie Oakes. He said:

Clearly, $6 billion is a gigantic amount of money in anyone’s terms … It’s a huge amount of money …

The priorities of those opposite are all wrong. They chose tax relief for Porsche drivers over public transport for working families. Despite a new leadership team, the opposition are playing their old opportunistic games to delay the passage of this legislation. It shows how determined those opposite are to vandalise the budget surplus we built as a buffer.