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

They presided over the wastage of money and in this most recent report from the Audit Office—not a report from this government and not from the Prime Minister or from me—an independent report that analysed the member for Ballarat in her then ministerial position, and analysed her spending millions of dollars of taxpayers' money, decided that that money had not been spent appropriately, that decisions had not been presided over properly.

That is why the Australian public should be angry to this day towards the Labor Party, who took that money out of the pockets of hardworking Australians and wasted it. They wasted that money and they have been called out by the responsible agency for oversighting these things, the Australian National Audit Office.

There was money that was allocated into marginal Labor seats that was taken away from regional areas and put into outer metropolitan seats, like the member for McMahon's. It was deemed to be inappropriate and the Labor Party stands condemned for that.

Australia's work very hard to provide for their families, they put money into governments, and they want it spent responsibly. That is why this government was elected to clean up Labor's mess and to make sure—

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