Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. As Australian families approach Christmas, they look back on the year and they realise that their hard work will contribute towards providing for their families, but many of them, millions of Australians who have worked hard this year, have contributed dollars to this government to make sure that we spend it wisely on projects, including in my portfolio of health and in sport, and in education—in all of the areas that we have responsibility for.

Part of the reason that the Australian people were so angry at Labor over the course of the last six years was because they wasted billions and billions of dollars—an absolute disgrace. The Labor Party got kicked out of office because, over the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years, they wasted money in health and they wasted money in education—

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