Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I have faced enough opposition questions now to know that the context of them can sometimes be distorted in terms of the quotes that might be being used or the basis upon which those quotes are being used. It is, of course, evidence—as I said when I rose in response to the very first question today—that, yet again, those opposite don't come in here to ask policy questions. They don't come in here to ask questions about the issues facing Australians in their jobs and in their lives: the tax that they might pay, the threats that they might face—be they domestic or foreign—or any of those types of challenges. No, they come in just with an agenda of muckraking, of mud throwing—