Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

You can deny as much as you like, but the truth remains the truth, despite Senator Collins’s interjections. We have a different approach. We actually support jobs without Australians bearing this unbearable debt. I simply say that we as an opposition oppose the severity of this package, the huge debt that will be foisted on future generations. Those senators who vote for it will be responsible to those future generations.

Labor senator after Labor senator will filibuster, but we will not be party to the filibuster. I have set down the opposition’s position in relation to this.