Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I know this is going to defy commonsense, but I am not sure what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is getting at. If I say that we have not made any final decisions in relation to the second tranche, why would she think that we have allocated money to it? We do not know how big it is going to be; we are not sure of the timing, when it is going to happen. What we do know is that there is a great thirst amongst the general public for accurate information, factual information about the workplace relations system that is not made up of spin—the sort of spin that the ACTU is trying to convince the general public of.

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