House debates

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Matters of Public Importance

Budget

3:46 pm

Photo of Rob MitchellRob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

You're a goose. You know why they sit you over? They don't want you near the front bench.

He did nothing for five minutes but talk rubbish. When you have a debate on economics, you usually put your lead person up. The worst thing that they could do was to put up Little Sloppy—I will call him that—the member for Kooyong. He was on the television last night saying that petrol prices had gone down because of this government. Somehow, the Abbott government, which has done nothing but break every single promise it made to the electorate, has made APEC drop their prices. But of course petrol prices have gone up 37c since Christmas.

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