Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Bernardi has covered himself very well in this debate, but his shallowness has still been exposed. The word that I have used most since we came into government about those opposite is ‘hypocrisy’. They try to rewrite history. This is a budget for all Australians and it is a budget that all my colleagues in this chamber are very proud of. It is history making. Finally, after more than a decade, there is a federal government that is not about pork-barrelling. That was what Peter Costello, the former Treasurer, and John Howard were not about. This is a budget for the future.