Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. It is an extremely successful program and the Liberals on the ground, in your own electorates, think it is fantastic. Just for the record, when you get out into your electorates—because you do not actually get out into them—talk to the mayors, because they think it is fantastic. In relation to funding, Senator Eggleston has raised a number of issues, so I am going to put on record that there are $800 million in this program. And when you do a partisan, party political analysis, the ALP gets across the country 53 per cent of the funding—shock, horror. But guess what? When you actually look at how many MPs we have, 55 per cent of the members in the House of Representatives receive 53 per cent of the funding. (Time expired)