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

But the money they are raising is going to be spent. What we are seeing in New South Wales is the full impact of the global financial crisis. As Senator Sherry and I and many others on this side have said, Australia is not immune from the global financial crisis. But we are better placed than most to stand up to it—in spite of the irresponsible economic vandalism from some of those on the other side of the chamber in blocking budget measures and voting against them, in spite of those on the other side saying they were going to support the economic security package and then criticising it and undermining it. We all understand the dog-whistle politics from those on the other side: you say one thing but you do another. You are getting very good at it and Australians are becoming very, very clever—(Time expired)