Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I was invited, Mr President. We are still waiting. There is a deathly silence on that side because everybody knows that what they have signed up for is a taxpayer-funded, grants based scheme run by a bureaucracy. Who would have thought that the party of free markets, supposedly the Liberal Party, does not like a price signal but wants a bunch of bureaucrats here in Canberra to dole out money? So we would take money from punters, money from Australian households and we give it to Canberra to dole it out. That is your policy, Senator Cormann.

Honourable senators interjecting—