Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I note that Senator Joyce has been doing a fair bit of media recently. He has been playing a great deal of politics with the stimulus package and has been carrying out a scare campaign on deficits.

I will talk about the first stimulus package that the government put in place and the way the Liberals have approached that stimulus package. It goes to how they are approaching economic management at the moment. In the chamber this morning coalition senators, time and time again, talked about the first stimulus package, in December last year, as ‘the cash splash’. That is what the coalition call it. That is what Malcolm Turnbull, the member for Wentworth, calls it. I have raised this previously, but I am happy to raise it again for Senator Joyce. Take the time to look at the Liberal Party website. I am a bit of a boring person, so I was happy to go to the Liberal Party website. The Leader of the Opposition now says that the first stimulus package is a cash splash and it has not worked. What did he say on Tuesday, 14 October, when we introduced the first stimulus package?