Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

Another voice from the wilderness! Senator Marshall will love this bill because there is absolutely nothing in here which forces the government to look at the long-term ramifications. Senator Marshall is quite happy to bankcard everything. He is well known for supporting the nefarious activities of the Cain-Kirner government, which sent the state of Victoria broke. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party that was quite happy to defend that. He is not standing up here today because debt does not worry him. It has never worried him and he is not worried about it now. He is not going to talk about it, but he sits across there with a silly grin on his face throwing some stuff across the chamber. Why doesn’t he have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and debate this?

While we are on people who are not prepared to stand up, I just wonder where Mr Darren Cheeseman, the member for Corangamite, is in relation to this bill. Mr Cheeseman, of course, has been running around saying, ‘There is money coming for the Princes Highway West duplication.’ We are talking about $42 billion, and where is Cheeseman in relation to this? Where is the member for Corangamite?