Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Mayo did express some concern about the cost. He said:

OK, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars ... maybe $300 million. That’s a lot. And I’m not a big government advocate by any means. ... The State and Federal governments could both contribute and the cost would be spread over several years.

It must have been a very, very long lunch. And this is not the only profligate lunch that has been occurring recently. I understand that a number of members of the opposition were spotted having lunch at Timmy’s today while the Leader of the Opposition was actually giving his speech. The member for Indi, the member for Mackellar, the member for Hume, the member for Dickson—

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