Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Out of 42 recommendations made by her own hand-picked committee, she overturned 34 of them. Of those that the former minister overturned, 80 per cent of them were in coalition seats and 60 per cent were in Labor seats. This is a total and utter abuse of taxpayers' money in a desperate attempt to hold up Labor seats. It was a king's ransom for the Labor Party. And it was not the usual suspects. It was not the member for Grayndler, it was not the member for Sydney; it was the member for Ballarat, who has been totally and utterly silent—

Ms Collins interjecting—

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