Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I will take that interjection from the finance minister. Her government has overseen a level of expenditure and wastage unseen in this country's history. Why should the gentlemen sitting in the gallery today, and the 30,000 people who will be supported by this bill, pay for your fiscal recklessness? Why should they be penalised for the fact that you have absolutely no control over your spending, that your spending has been completely out of control, and that you have taken this country from $40 billion in the black to $110 billion in the red? Why should they pay for that? How can you come in here and plead some case when you know that the government does not even support what you say?