Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

What we have from those opposite from their time in government was an absolutely relentless ability to fail to launch on pretty much every issue. They would have ideas. We remember the pink batts, we remember the school halls, we remember the border protection failures and we remember that they always would just fail to launch. In fact, with Labor governments, you are much better off if they just do nothing, because it is when they actually do something that the damage is really done, because they cannot respect the principle of 'do no harm'. The measures they are putting forward in this area, which they refuse to provide the assumptions behind despite our request to do that, run the very real risk of putting in jeopardy investment in serious infrastructure projects in this country, because they are trying to use a blunt instrument with the global ratio rule, which does not provide the level of customisation that you need to look at in individual circumstances. (Time expired)

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