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

Just because Senator Keneally says it doesn't mean it's true. Just because Senator Keneally picks up the mud bucket and throws it around doesn't mean there's any accuracy to it. Those opposite are demonstrating, as they do time and time again, as they do question time after question time, that they're only interested in character assassination. They're only interested in making it a personality contest; they're not interested in policies. As we've highlighted in this place, they come in here, they sling mud at Senator Colbeck, but they never propose an alternative aged-care policy, do they? No; they never do that, of course. They are an opposition bereft of any ideas, bereft of any direction, bereft of any substance, with a leader who flip-flops on policies depending on where they're at. They're an opposition who came up with $81 billion of extra spending ideas during the course of the pandemic, but then say we should have budget repair. They demonstrate that they've got no idea.