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

This is not just money going on schools and this is not just money going on housing; it is money that is going into infrastructure, something that those on the opposite side of the chamber ignored for 12 years. The money is going on infrastructure—17 major rail lines and 14 major roads. It is going on future infrastructure, which will increase the productive capacity of this country, something that you do not care about because, when the Howard government was in office, productivity went backwards. That is a fact: productivity went backwards. Again, just to show the erratic nature of Senator Joyce, last night he said that this country is not out of the woods yet— (Time expired)