Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Again a false premise is the basis of a question. This attack by those opposite is being made because they are embarrassed at the performance of their leader and at the performance of their frontbench over the levy. They are trying to pretend that they have introduced some cuts when really they are just being cynical—as cynical as they have been in this attack here today. It demonstrates that the Australian public were right last August or September.