Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

All of them. Typically, they are not going to wear it. Did you ever think they would? I think this Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy Surcharge Thresholds) Bill (No. 2) 2008 came down in budget time. I would have to say that, of what was a bad budget, this would have to be the worst policy announced on budget night. I know that in your first budget you are under pressure; you want to get things out. But this would have to have been the worst, most costly and most incompetent announcement on budget night—and there were a few of them. But you are playing in the area of health. I cannot see that the health minister, who put this up, who is responsible for this, has a very long future, with the embarrassment of it being defeated in this Senate—I assume—but also the mere fact—