Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Oh, I see. It is like everything else in the Liberal Party today: ‘We sort of support it, but we don’t. We are not exactly supporting, but we’re not opposing.’ It is flip, flop, flap on every issue known to man including local government grants, which I thought most local authorities represented by those opposite were willing to receive assistance from—unless I see any hands raised that they would like their money for their local authorities removed, other than the member for Cook, who has had a notable engagement on this with local authorities down in the Illawarra, which has been well canvassed in the Illawarra newspaper.

I say to the honourable member: constitutional arrangements are clear. Local authorities answer to state governments on the question of any—

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