Michael Ferguson (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is just another number and you think to yourself, ‘He’s just reeling off more statistics,’ but as they interject and they heckle they ignore the fact that in 1992 thousands of young Australians had no purpose in life, no goals in life and nothing to strive for—and, in a way, you simply ignore this because you want to win the debate today and you simply want to provide opposition to the government. You are not genuinely concerned.

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