Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) Share this | Hansard source

A billion dollars worth of schoolbooks or a billion dollars worth of uniforms could have been provided to struggling families and their children. But, no! Don't worry. We'll make sure we get both window-faced and plain envelopes ready to go, all with the new logo and proper font on them.

What about disaster relief? There are all those things. It's the end of the world. There's actually never going to be a positive about climate change. When you think about more carbon and more water, it's pretty good for the forests of Australia. It's pretty lush and green out there at the moment. But we're going to have all these disasters, apparently. We could've had a billion dollars ready to go to a disaster relief fund.

What about crime prevention? Indigenous communities and rural and regional communities are being ravaged, particularly by youth crime. We had a stabbing in Dubbo again last weekend. A billion dollars could be spent on youth crime initiatives.