Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

There are truckloads. How can you just stand at the despatch box and say ‘It is a terrible waste to invest in this infrastructure’ on the one hand and then on the other write to the ministers responsible and say ‘Give us more.’? I do not understand. How do you get away with this? How do you square up when you try to do this? The member for New England is appropriately gesticulating. There is a certain detachment from reality on the part of the National Party.

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