Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Let me assure the member for Lilley of one thing: my attacks on his raids on the Future Fund are going to go on every single day until the next election. If the Labor Party were not worried about attacks on their policy to raid the Future Fund, they would not be demanding that they stop. I have never heard the Labor Party actually demand that we do something which they believed to be in their interest. The reason why the Labor Party are sensitive on this issue is: not only do they know it is wrong; they also know that if a private sector employer tried to raid the superannuation funds of their employees it would be illegal. The last time this was tried it was done by a bloke called Robert Maxwell, the newspaper owner, in the UK. Robert Maxwell had a great plan to raid—

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