Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It is funny, you know, Mr Acting Deputy President, when I hear these speeches from Senator Cameron. The cancer destroying the Western world is public debt. And you wonder why people on the conservative side of politics are so disgusted with the Australian Labor Party and with the Greens, who supported them, when they spend money that this country did not have and that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay back. It is a disgrace for the Australian Labor Party to come in here and talk about intergenerational equity to the party that put it on the agenda—a la the Hon. Peter Costello, the greatest Treasurer this country has ever had. What a disgrace that Senator Cameron should come in here and lecture to this side of the chamber about young people. Every dollar that the left in this country want to spend is money that we have to borrow—and borrow from where? It is from our kids and our grandkids. The heads of those opposite are looking down, because they do not have an answer to this question.