Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

In question time today the Minister for Health and Ageing claimed that effectively I was going soft on binge drinking and she referred to yesterday’s Insiders program. I am happy to table the full transcript of the program, but I in fact said:

It turned out in the budget papers it is a $3.1 billion tax grab and even his own people—

meaning the Prime Minister—

have been saying that this is not about tax equalisation ... Now what we are starting to get evidence of is that young people are turning to hip flasks—

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