House debates

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Questions without Notice

Economy

3:09 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his previous answer, in which he said that the previous coalition government had wasted $380 billion of revenues from the resources boom. Would the Prime Minister identify the areas in which this very large sum of money was wasted? Does he contend it was wasted, for example, on family benefits, on pensions, on tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners, on the Medicare safety net, on AusLink or on water security? Or was it wasted on defending Australia in the war against terror?

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